Abstract: | The carbohydrate components of the bulbs ofAllium cepa L. (white variety) have been characterized. It has been established that the main carbohydrate component is the ethanol-soluble fraction. Information has been obtained on the elementary compositions and origin of a number of fragments in the mass spectrum of the peracetate of 1F-kestose.Deceased.Institute of the Chemistry of Plant Substances, Academy of Sciences of the Uzbek SSR, Tashkent. Translated from Khimiya Prirodnykh Soedinenii, No. 2, pp. 174–178, March–April, 1985. |