Percolation of starch and soluble carbohydrates from plant tissue for quantitative determination with anthrone

✍ Scribed by Jürgen Hansen; Ib Møller

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 384 KB
• Volume: 68
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0003-2697
• DOI: 10.1016/0003-2697(75)90682-x

✦ Synopsis

The technique of percolation was applied as an improvement over the usual technique of maceration for extraction of carbohydrates from small amounts of plant material. Soluble carbohydrates were extracted by percolation with 80% ethanol and starch was extracted by percolation with 35% perchloric acid. The course of percolation was studied and the technique was demonstrated to give reproducible results. The anthrone method was applied for starch determination.