Molecular characteristics of a novel water-soluble polysaccharide from the New Zealand black tree fern (Cyathea medullaris)

Food Hydrocolloids

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 286-292

  Tha Goh, Kelvin Kim ^a   Matia Merino, Lara ^a   Pinder, D Neil ^b   Saavedra, Carolina ^a   Singh, Harjinder ^b  

^a MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Conformation; Cyathea medullaris; Intrinsic viscosity; Light scattering; Mamaku; Polysaccharide; Stiffness parameter B

Indexed keywords

DYNAMIC LIGHT SCATTERING; MOLECULES; SIZE EXCLUSION CHROMATOGRAPHY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; STIFFNESS; VISCOSITY;

CYATHEA MEDULLARI; INTRINSIC VISCOSITY; MAMAKU; MOLECULAR CHARACTERISTICS; MULTIANGLE LASER LIGHT SCATTERING; MULTIANGLE LASER-LIGHT SCATTERING; POLYMER MOLECULE; STIFFNESS PARAMETER B; STIFFNESS PARAMETERS; WATER-SOLUBLE POLYSACCHARIDES;

CONFORMATIONS;

CYATHEA MEDULLARIS; FILICOPHYTA;

EID: 77957777595     PISSN: 0268005X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodhyd.2010.06.005     Document Type: Article

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