In this paper we examine lipophilic substances, tannins, proteins, reducing carbohydrates, starch, and oxalate salts in early lineages of Asteraceae to test if they are a useful complement to classification studies. Styles of mature flowers of 44 species were processed according to plant histochemical techniques and observed by means of a light microscope. Lipophilic compounds were always prese...

Due to persistent difficulties experienced under routine conditions of analysis, considerable attention has been given in this laboratory to determining a satisfactory alternative procedure to the double polarisation method for sucrose in final molasses. For some time the Eynon~Lane technique has been employed for measuring the reducing sugars and re. ducing sugars plus inverted sucrose in fina...

The application of paper chromatography to the qualitative analysis of reducing sugars by Partridge (1946) has greatly simplified the detection of these substances in biological fluids. In particular it has provided an accurate and comparatively easy method of separating reducing sugars in the urine. This has proved of great value in the investigation of such a condition as congenital galactosa...

In this paper, we developed a green and facile approach to the synthesis of chemically converted graphene nanosheets (GNS) based on reducing sugars, such as glucose, fructose and sucrose using exfoliated graphite oxide (GO) as precursor. The obtained GNS is characterized with atomic force microscopy, UV-visible absorption spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spect...

It has previously been shown that reducing sugars are frequently excreted in the urine by mature and premature newborn babies (Haworth and McCredie, 1956; Haworth and MacDonald, 1957). Other workers, using paper chromatographic methods, have also found small amounts of sugars in the urines of children and usually higher concentrations of lactose and galactose in urines from young babies (Woolf,...

It was previously demonstrated that, when solutions of hexose sugars such as glucose, fructose, or mannose are introduced into green leaves under aerobic conditions, an increase in sucrose is observed (l-3). The sucrose appears to be synthesized at the expense of the monosaccharides. Excised barley leaves infiltrated with 5 per cent glucose or fructose accumulated sucrose to a level of about 6 ...

Whey is the largest by-product of huge dairy industry and is one of the most troublesome byproduct produced which in Biological Oxygen Demand (BOD) value of waste water making the disposal costly and problematic. Whey based beverages with different concentrations of sweet orange juice and standard ingredients of RTS beverage were prepared. These beverages were analyzed for physic chemical param...

Sorghum is one of the commercially feasible lignocellulosic biomass and has a great potential of being sustainable feedstock for renewable energy. As with any lignocellulosic biomass, sorghum also requires pretreatment which increases its susceptibility to hydrolysis by enzymes for generating sugars which can be further fermented to alcohol. In the present study, sorghum biomass was evaluated f...

The effect of NaCl and ABA on germination, sugars and enzymes of carbohydrate metabolism in sorghum embryos and endosperm was investigated. Both phytohormone and salt stress influenced different aspects at physiological and biochemical level. Germination decreased markedly under NaCl and ABA treatments. Subsequently, an influence of salt stress and ABA on total and reducing sugars along with am...