Wood sugars, chromatographic analysis

Chromatographic Analysis of Wood Sugars. This analysis requires acid hydrolysis of the polysaccharide to yield a solution mixture of the five wood sugar monomers, i.e., glucose, xylose, galactose, arabinose, and mannose. The solution is neutralized, filtered. 

Brower, H.E. 1966. Gas chromatographic sugar analysis in hydrolyzates of wood constituents. Anal. Chem. 38 362. 

The literature agrees that sucrose is the primary sugar present in mature pecan. In an early study relying on gas chromatographic (GC) sugar analysis, Wood and McMeans [23] followed sugar... 

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