amylum

Vegetative reproduction takes place by tubers, amylum stars and secondary protonema.

In biochemistry, "amyl" means "pertaining to starch", "amylum" being another word for starch.

Starch or amylum is a carbohydrate consisting of a large number of glucose units joined by glycosidic bonds.

In 1976 the Company acquired a 33% stake (increased to 63% in 1988) in Amylum, a European starch-based manufacturing business.

The name amyloid comes from the early mistaken identification by Rudolph Virchow of the substance as starch (amylum in Latin), based on crude iodine-staining techniques.

First use: 1908 Origin: species of wheat, from German Emmer, variant of Amelkorn, from amel "starch", from Latin amylum.

In October 2007 five European starch and alcohol plants, previous part of the European starch division knowns as Amylum group, were sold to Syral, a subsidiary of French sugar company Tereos.

In 2007 the starch sugar and bioethanol part (5 plants) of the European starch division of Tate & Lyle known as Amylum group, was bought by starch subsidiary Syral of Tereos.

Amylum (G.R.) N.V. v. Council and Commission of the European Communities (Joined Cases 116/77, 124/77 and 143/77)[1978]E.C.R. 893, E.C.J.