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Bemisiose: an unusual trisaccharide in Bemisia honeydew by Donald L. Hendrix; Yuan-an Wei is a Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology article available to read on EtoBox.
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Homopteran insects feeding upon on plant phloem sugars excrete a syrup termed honeydew which contains high concentrations of oligosaccharides. The creation of these oligosaccharides from sucrose in the phloem sap by transglycosylation reactions' has been proposed as an osmoregulatatory mechanism in these insects\*. Understanding this osmoregulation process would require a knowledge of the carbohydrates involved, but very few detailed analyses of the oligosaccharides in these excretions exist. A recent analysis of the smaller sugars in honeydew from the silverleaf whitefly (BemSz argentifoh) honeydew showed that its most abundant saccharide component was the unusual disaccharide trehalulose3. In order to analyze this sugar mixture more completely, a gradient high-performance anion-exchange chromatography (HPAEC) analysis of Bemisiu honeydew was carried out which showed that this syrup was composed of N 30 components (Fig. 1) including an unknown sugar that constituted about 3% (peak area) of the total sugars in the mixture. Chemical-ionization and electron-ionization gas chromatography, enzyme digestion, and 'H and 13C NMR experiments showed this saccharide to be a trisaccharide con
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- Author
- Donald L. Hendrix; Yuan-an Wei
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science; Elsevier ; Elsevier Ltd.; Elsevier BV (ISSN 0008-6215)
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- Field
- Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (Life Sciences)