SEARCH FOR LECTINS IN SEEDS OF TROPICAL TREES OF KERALA, INDIA

Authors
PRAKASHKUMAR R PUSHPANGADAN P VIJAYAKUMAR T
Citation
R. Prakashkumar et al., SEARCH FOR LECTINS IN SEEDS OF TROPICAL TREES OF KERALA, INDIA, Biologia plantarum, 40(1), 1998, pp. 155-158
Citations number
6
Categorie Soggetti
Plant Sciences
Journal title
Biologia plantarum → ACNP
ISSN journal
00063134
Volume
40
Issue
1
Year of publication
1998
Pages
155 - 158
Database
ISI
SICI code
0006-3134(1998)40:1<155:SFLISO>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
Tissue specific plant lectins were searched in the seeds of 44 tropica l trees of Kerala, India. Seeds of only 12 plant species showed lectin activity. N-acetyl-D-galactosamine was the best inhibitor of lectin a ctivity for the majority of the seeds, Lectin activity in the seeds of 4 species were not inhibited by any of the mono-or polysaccharides us ed.