The carbohydrates of two portions, i. e., cotyledon and nutfhell, of tea seed were divided into fourteen fractions, then free sugars and the component sngars of each fracton have been investigated the method of paper chromatography.
The following results were obtained.
In the cotyledon portion, glucose, fructose, sucrose, maltose, raffinose, stachyose and two unknown oligosaccharides (
RF 0.09 and 0.06), and in the nutshell portion a very slight amount of fructose, sucrose and two unkown oligosaccharides (
RF 0.09 and 0.06), were detected as free sugars.
Also, galactose, fructose, glucose, xylose, arabinose, rhamnose and galacturonic acid from the cotyledon portion, and fructose, glucose and xylose from the nutshell portion, were found as the hydrolyzate products of free sugar fractions.
Glucose, xylose and galacturonic acid were detected from the cotyledon portion as the component of hot 50% ethanol-soluble polysaccharides, but not found from the nutshell portion.
Glucose, fructose, arabinose and galacturonic acid were found from the cotyledon portion as the component sugars of cold water-soluble polysacharides, but nothing found from the nutshell.
A large amount of glucose was detected from the cotyledon portion as the component sugar of hot 33% CaCl
2-soluble polysaccharides (mainly starch), and a very intensive spot of xylose from the nutshell only, were detected as the component of hot water-soluble polysaccharides.
Glucose, galactose, arabinose and galacturonic acid were found from the cotyledon portion, as the component sugars of hot 0.5% NH
4- oxalate-soluble polysaccharides.
From the cotyledon portion glucose and fructose were detected intensively and arabinose very weakly; from the nutshell portion only arabinose was detected. All these three sugars were found as component sugars of cold 5% NaOH-soluble polysaccharides.
Moreover, fructose and galacturoic acid from the cotyledon, arabinose only from the nutshell, were all found as the component of hot 5% NaOH-soluble polysaccharides.
As the component sugars of β-and γ-cellulose, fructose, glucos and xylose from the cotyledon, and only arabinose from the nutshell portion were detected.
Besides the above carbohydrates, α-cellulose and lignin were also detected from both cotyledon and nutshell portions.
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