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Science 13 November 1959:
Vol. 130. no. 3385, p. 1343
DOI: 10.1126/science.130.3385.1343
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Role of Trehalose in Ascospores of Neurospora Tetrasperma

ALFRED S. SUSSMAN 1 and BANADAKAPPA T. LINGAPPA 1

1 Department of Botany, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The anthrone-positive material extractable in 80 percent alcohol, whose disappearance is correlated with the breaking of dormancy, has been found to be a non-reducing sugar which yields only glucose upon hydrolysis. On the basis of its crystal structure, infrared spectrum, melting point, specific rotation, and chromatographic properties, this material has been identified as trehalose.


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