Cereal Chem 56:81 - 83.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
Free Sugars in Developing Maize Grain.

E. Gentinetta, M. Zambello, and F. Salamini. Copyright 1979 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

The free sugar fraction of maize grain during development was studied by anion-exchange chromatography. Sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, cellobiose, and ribose were found in the embryo, and sucrose, glucose, fructose, maltose, galactose, ribose, mannose, cellobiose, and traces of xylose were detected in the endosperm. Two unknown orcinol-reacting compounds also were present both in the embryo and endosperm. Data related to quantitative variations in these sugars during seed development also are reported.