COMPARISON OF GUM SPECIMENS FROM ACACIA-TORTUOSA AND OTHER GUMMIFERAESPECIES

Authors
DEPINTO GL MARTINEZ M ORTEGA S VILLAVICENCIO N BORJAS L
Citation
Gl. Depinto et al., COMPARISON OF GUM SPECIMENS FROM ACACIA-TORTUOSA AND OTHER GUMMIFERAESPECIES, Biochemical systematics and ecology, 21(8), 1993, pp. 795-797
Citations number
18
Categorie Soggetti
Ecology,Biology
Journal title
Biochemical systematics and ecology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03051978
Volume
21
Issue
8
Year of publication
1993
Pages
795 - 797
Database
ISI
SICI code
0305-1978(1993)21:8<795:COGSFA>2.0.ZU;2-4
Abstract
Analytical data are presented for the polysaccharide of six gum specim ens from Acacia tortuosa, a tropical American Gummiferae species. Thes e data show that the gums were basically similar but differed in the s ugar composition reported for most Acacia gum exudates studied so far. The presence of traces of xylose (<1%) and the absence of rhamnose in the gum specimens studied was very unusual.