Isolation of trehalose from desert manna
- 1 January 1944
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Portland Press Ltd. in Biochemical Journal
- Vol. 38 (3) , 205-206
- https://doi.org/10.1042/bj0380205
Abstract
A manna found in the North Iraquian Desert and said to be the excretion of a scale insect contains about 7% of trehalose. A sugar syrup prepared from this manna contains as much as 60% trehalose.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: