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FRUCTOSE, glucose, quebrachitol, mesoinositol, and (—)-inositol have been detected in the free state in Hevea latex serum, and glucose, galactose, mesoinositol, and an unknown sugar (probably a ketose) were obtained on hydrolysis of a latex lipid fraction1. The work reported here is an examination of Hevea bark tissues for reducing sugars, and, in view of the common 5-carbon branched skeleton unit of the isoprenoid compounds, particular interest lay in the detection of branched-chain sugars.
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PATRICK, A. Occurrence of Apiose in Hevea brasiliensis. Nature 178, 216 (1956). https://doi.org/10.1038/178216a0
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