Screening of bovine rumen contents for heat-resistant and micro-aerophilic cellulose-degrading microorganisms was performed on carboxymethyl cellulose (CMC) plates at 37 °C-45 °C, and many isolates were found to produce reducing sugars under a static condition. Of those isolates, R8 and R15, which efficiently produced reducing sugars from CMC at a high temperature, were further examined. Taxono...

Methods for the determination of galactose in the presence of other sugars by differential fermentation with yeast have been used since 1914. Kluyver (1914) observed that certain strains of yeast ferment galactose and developed a method of measuring fermentable sugars by carbon dioxide evolution. Hopkins, Peterson, and Fred (1930) employed a modification in which they measured residual reducing...

A very simple and dirrct radioactive isotope m&hod has been tlwcl~ibed for the quantitative determination of reducing sugars. The method can be adapted to give any degrtte of sensitivity desired. The procedure is of general applicability to the determination of a large class of sugars. The stoichiometry of the reaction makes it a comprehensive procedure which greatly facilitates the analysis of...

Effects of zeatin on amino acid and sugar contents of detached radish (Raphanus sativus L.) cotyledons were investigated to determine if accumulation of these solutes contributes to cytokinin-enhanced growth. Protein and amino acid levels were not significantly affected, but in cotyledons incubated in light the hormone caused greater accumulations of reducing sugars than occurred in light contr...

pectinases have multiple nature and various forms which are necessary for the hydrolysis of pectin in several conventional industrial and natural processes. in this investigation fourteen fungal strains which isolated from agricultural soils ,were screened for pectinase activity. pectinase activity were measured in vitro by assaying released reducing sugar from pectin as sole carbon source. asp...