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In papers currently being prepared for publication we report chemical studies on the polysaccharides of the New Zealand seaweeds in the family Gracilariaceae. As expected from other work (Duckworth et al, 1971; Ji et al., 1985; and references therein) the polysaccharides were based on the agar structure, with repeating units of alternating 3-linked β-D-galactose (some of which were methylated at C-6, pyruvylated at C-4,6, or even substituted in hitherto unrecorded ways, e.g., xylosylated at C-6 or C-4), and 4-linked α-L galactose units (which occur as the 3,6-anhydrogalactose, galactose, or galactose-6-sulfate).
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Miller, I.J., Furneaux, R.H. (1987). The chemical substitution of the agar-type polysaccharide from Gracilaria secundata f. pseudoflagellifera (Rhodophyta). In: Ragan, M.A., Bird, C.J. (eds) Twelfth International Seaweed Symposium. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 41. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4057-4_77
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