Cereal Chem 56:295 - 297.  |  VIEW ARTICLE
Pentosans in Pearl Millet.

A. V. Bailey, G. Sumrell, and G. W. Burton. Copyright 1979 by the American Association of Cereal Chemists, Inc. 

Solubility differences were used to separate the pentosans of pearl millet (Pennisetum americanum [L.] Leake) into four fractions. Ribose was found in only one fraction---that extracted by 80% ethanol. The other three fractions, which were separated by extraction with water at 25 C, with water at 50 C, and with 0.5M alkali, contained various amounts of seven sugars: rhamnose, fucose, arabinose, xylose, mannose, galactose, and glucose. The relative amounts of sugars varied considerably among fractions, and also differed considerably from those previously reported for grain sorghum.