STUDIES ON WATER-SOLUBLE SUGAR AND SUGAR ALCOHOL IN CULTIVARS AND WILD FORMS OF LAUROCERASUS-OFFICINALIS ROEM

Authors
Citation
Fa. Ayaz, STUDIES ON WATER-SOLUBLE SUGAR AND SUGAR ALCOHOL IN CULTIVARS AND WILD FORMS OF LAUROCERASUS-OFFICINALIS ROEM, Pakistan journal of botany, 29(2), 1997, pp. 331-336
Citations number
15
Journal title
ISSN journal
05563321
Volume
29
Issue
2
Year of publication
1997
Pages
331 - 336
Database
ISI
SICI code
0556-3321(1997)29:2<331:SOWSAS>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
Water soluble sugar and sugar alcohol composition in fruits of Lauroce rasus officinalis cvs. Oxygemmis, Globigemmis and wild form of L. offi cinalis Roem., have been examined. Gas chromatography-mass spectrometr y studies exhibited that the main sugars in L. officinalis and related cultivars are fructose, glucose and sorbitol and sorbitol and mannito l as sugar alcohols. Fructose, glucose and sorbitol were in significan tly higher levels in cultivars and the wild form with highest value 74 .4% of dry weight of total water soluble sugar in Oxygemmis and the hi ghest level of sugar alcohol (42.6%) in the wild form with least in An gustifolia (19.9% of dry weight).