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Water-Soluble Carbohydrates and Fructan Structure Patterns from Agave and Dasylirion Species
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N. Alejandra Mancilla-Margalli, and Mercedes G. López* Departamento de Biotecnología y Bioquímica, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del IPN, Campus Guanajuato, Apartado Postal 629, Irapuato, Gto., 36500 Mexico
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J. Agric. Food Chem., 2006, 54 (20), pp 7832–7839 DOI: 10.1021/jf060354v Publication Date (Web): September 2, 2006 Copyright © 2006 American Chemical Society
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Fructans, storage carbohydrates with -fructofuranosyl linkages, are found in ~15% of higher
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plants. The metabolic flexibility of those molecules allows them easily to polymerize and
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depolymerize to soluble carbohydrates according to plant development stage and environmental
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conditions. In this work, water-soluble carbohydrates, including fructan structure patterns, were compared among Agave and Dasylirion species grown in different environmental regions in
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Mexico. Fructans were the main storage carbohydrate present in Agave stems, in addition to other carbohydrates related to its metabolism, whereas Dasylirion spp. presented a different
carbohydrate distribution. A good correlation of water-soluble carbohydrate content with climatic
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conditions was observed. Fructans in Agave and Dasylirion genera were found in the form of polydisperse molecules, where structural heterogeneity in the same plant was evidenced by methylation linkage analysis and chromatographic methods. Fructans from the studied species
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were classified into three groups depending on DP and linkage-type abundance. These storage
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carbohydrates share structural characteristics with fructans in plants that belong to the Asparagales members. Agave and Dasylirion fructans can be categorized as graminans and
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branched neo-fructans, which we have termed agavins.
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Keywords: Agave; Dasylirion; fructans; branching; partially methylated alditol acetates; gas
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