THE periodic acid Schiff technique has been used histochemically primarily as a means of localizing the 1,2 glycol linkage in tissue sections 1. It is known, however, that periodic acid is also ...
The presence of a periodic acid-Schiff's (PAS) substance at the micropylar portion of the ovules of Paspalum orbiculare and three other species of Paspalum has been revealed by improved cytological ...
IT has been shown 1 that when 1,4 polysaccharides, such as starch or cellulose, are treated with periodic acid solution, the carbon chain in each sugar unit is ruptured between carbon atoms 2 and 3, ...