Abstract
Cane molasses, major by-product of the cane sugar industry, has found use as a cattle feed and also as a raw material resource for the production of alcohol, yeast, and other fermentation products. However, for the development of new or improved use of molasses, more complete knowledge of the chemical composition of cane molasses is desirable. Although a number of papers have been published on the constituents of molasses, few reports are available that summarize the knowledge of the nucleic acid components of molasses.
An extensive study on the isolation and identification of the nucleic acid components has been made, employing both ion-exchange and gas-liquid chromatographies. Cane molasses has been found to contain cytidine, uridine, adenosine, adenine, inosine, guanosine, guanine, 5'-inosinic, guanylic, and adenylic acids. The presence of cytosine, hypoxanthine, xanthine and thymine also were inferred from the gas chromatograms.
