Donald B. Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor - Department of Food Science
Ph.D., University of Illinois, 1984
114 Borland Laboratory
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 863-2165
Fax: (814) 863-6140
E-mail: dbt1@psu.edu
Research Interests
- Relationship between molecular structure and physical behavior of starches
- Nutritional effects of food processing treatments.
Publications
- Yao Y, Thompson DB, Guiltinan MJ. Maize starch-branching enzyme isoforms and amylopectin structure. In the absence of starch-branching enzyme IIb, the further absence of starch-branching enzyme Ia leads to increased branching . Plant Physiology 136 (3): 3515-3523 Nov 2004.
- Evans A, Thompson DB. Resistance to alpha-amylase digestion in four native high-amylose maize starches. Cereal Chemistry (1): 31-37 Jan-Feb 2004.
- Evans, A.E., McNish, N., Thompson, D.B. Polarization colors of lightly iodine-stained maize starches for amylose-extender and related genotypes in the W64A inbred line. Starch/Starke 55 (6): 250-257 Jun 2003.
- Blauth, S. L., J. Klucinec, J.C. Shannon, D. B. Thompson, and M. J. Guiltinan. 2002 Identification of Mutator insertional mutants of starch branching enzyme I (Sbe1) in Zea mays L. Plant Molec. Biol. 48: 287-297.
- Klucinec, J.D. and Thompson, D.B. 2002. Structure of amylopectins from ae-containing maize starches. Cereal Chem. 79(1):19-23.
- Klucinec, J.D. and Thompson, D.B. 2002. Amylopectin structure and the amylose to amylopectin ratio both influence the nature of starch gels from mixtures of amylopectin and amylose. Cereal Chem. 79(1):24-35.
- Yao, Y., Guiltinan, M.J., Shannon, J.C., and Thompson, D.B. 2002. Single kernel sampling method for maize starch analysis while maintaining kernel vitality. Cereal Chem. 79:757-762