Floridean

Greenwood, C. T., and Thomson, J. 1961. Physicochemical studies on starches. Part XXIII. Some physical properties of floridean starch and the characterization of structure-type of branched a-l,4-glucans. J. Chem. Soc. 1534-1537. 

Meeuse, J. D., and Kreger, D. R. 1954. On the nature of floridean starch and Ulva starch. Biochim. Biophys. Acta. 13, 593-595. 

SCHEME 1. Action of a-(l 4)-glucan lyase on floridean starch (the monosaccharide derivatives, which are split from the nonreducing ends of the polysaccharide chains probably in the form of 2-hydroxyglucal, are tautomerized to the more stable 1,5-anhydro-D-fructose, 5). 

S. Peat, J. R. Turvey, and J. M. Evans, The structure of floridean starch. Part I. Linkage analysis by partial acid hydrolysis, J. Chem. Soc. (1959) 3223-3227. 

H. Ozaki, M. Maeda, and K. Nisizawa, Floridean starch of calcareous red alga, Joculator maximus, J. Biochem., 61 (1967) 497-503. 

S. Yu, A. Blennow, M. Bojko, F. Madsen, C. E. Olsen, and S. B. Engelsen, Physico-chemical characterization of floridean starch of red algae, Starch Starke, 54 (2002) 66-74. 

Ed 14,8 -50(1942) CA 37,575(1943), agar agar may be used as a coagulant for BaSO, in detn of sulfur or SO by pptn widi BaQ, Agar-Agar Substitutes can be obtained from floridean(red algae) starches Ref H.Kirschnick, Seifen-Ole-Fette-Wachse, 82,39-41(1956)(Review widi 16 refs)... 

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