Gl. Depinto et al., COMPARISON OF GUM SPECIMENS FROM ACACIA-TORTUOSA AND OTHER GUMMIFERAESPECIES, Biochemical systematics and ecology, 21(8), 1993, pp. 795-797
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.