Locust, Gleditsia

Some North American examples cf tree-sized legumes that occur in temperate climates include the black locust Robinia pseudoacacia, yellow-wood Cladrastis luted, redbud Cercis canadefisis, haiey locust Gleditsia triacanthos, and Kentucky coffee tree GyninocloAus dioica. These are all native to parts of the eastern United States but are cultivated as ornamentals more widely, sometimes escapii into roadside and seccndaiy-forest habitats. 

Honey locust Gleditsia tricanthos L.) 21 Eastern hemlock (Tsuga Canadensis L. Carr) 33... 

Methylglutamic acid (9), (25, 45)-4-hydroxy-4-meth-ylglutamic acid (70) and 4-methyleneglutamic acid (26) apparently are derived from leucine (Fig. 13.14) (Rosenthal, 1982). All these compounds are found in honey locust, Gleditsia triacanthos (Fabaceae). 4-Methyleneglutamic acid (26) is also stored in the peanut, Arachis hypogaea (Fabaceae). 

Gleditsia horrida Willd. G. sinensis Lam. G. xylocarpa Hance Zao Ci (Chinese honey locust) (leaf, fruit, seed) Saponin, arabinon, gleditsin, fisetin, fustin.50 Anthelmintic, febrifuge, treat cough, dysentery, flatulence, rectal prolapse, stroke, throat numbness, tetanus, emitic. 

Gleditsia ferox galactomannan a-D-Galactosidase-treated locust-bean 3.90 1 1.13 1... 

Honey locusts are deciduous trees with alternate, fine-textured leaves. They cast dappled shade and, except for their thominess and messy pods, are excellent as specimen or street trees. Thornless, nonfruiting cultivars are preferable. Gleditsia triacanthos van inermis is thorniest honey locust, from which most cultivars hkve been selected for landscape use. 

Honey locust. See Gleditsia Honeysuckle. See Lonicera Honeysuckle sawflies, Lonicera and, 145... 

Although chemical techniques have provided a considerable amount of dais on the structure of galactomannans, it has required the use of highly purified enzymes to determine the distribution of the side chains. Studies using a-D-galactosidases have indicated that the galactomannans from Gleditsia ferox and locust bean have a different distribution of a-D-Ga p residues (Courtois and Le Dizet, 1966). 

Bourbon AI, Pinheiro AC, Ribeiro C, Miranda C, Maia JM.Teixeira JA, et al. Characterization of galactomannans extracted from seeds of Gleditsia triacanthos and Sophora japonica through shear and extensional rheology comparison with guar gum and locust bean gum. Food Hydrocoil 2010 24(2—3) 184-92. 

Cyamopsis tetragonolobus (guar) Gleditsia triacanthes (honey locust) Medicago sativa (lucerne)... 

Gleditsia ferox 33 Gleditsia triacanthos (honey locust) 33, 189, 197 Glvcine max (soybean) 14, 20,21,25-26,34,36,... 

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