Chemical, molecular, and structural characterization of alkali extractable nonstarch polysaccharides from job's tears

Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2008, Pages 8549-8557

  Apirattananusorn, Supaporn ^a   Tongta, Sunanta ^a   Cui, Steve W ^b   Wang, Qi ^b  

^a SURANAREE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

^b GUELPH RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Alkali extract; Arabinoxylans; Job's tears; Nonstarch polysaccharides

Indexed keywords

ARABINOSE; ARABINOXYLAN; PLANT EXTRACT; POLYSACCHARIDE; XYLAN; XYLOSE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; COIX; FLOW KINETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PH; PLANT SEED;

ARABINOSE; COIX; HYDROGEN-ION CONCENTRATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PLANT EXTRACTS; POLYSACCHARIDES; RHEOLOGY; SEEDS; XYLANS; XYLOSE;

COIX; COIX LACRYMA-JOBI;

EID: 53649098143     PISSN: 00218561     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jf801231y     Document Type: Article

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