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The present paper describes the comparative biochemical studies in terms of quantitative analyses of carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, free amino acids, nucleic acids, minerals, ash and moisture as well as the identification of free amino acids of pollen of four species ofCassia L. (C. alata L,C. fistula L,C. occidentalis L andC. siamea Lam.). A significant variation in the chemical constituents was observed among the four species.C. occidentalis showed the highest levels of carbohydrate (15.15%) and protein (22.45%), andC. siamea had the lowest levels of carbohydrate (7.15%), lipid (6.2%) and protein (13.85%).C. alata andC. fistula showed intermediate results. However,C. alata showed the highest amount of free amino acids (3.8%) and the least of 1.42% was found inC. fistula. Thin layer chromatography (TLC) of free amino acids of the four species showed some homology in their amino acid content, of which proline, glutamic acid, methionine and phenyl-alanine were the most dominant. The level of nucleic acids and minerals was found to be comparatively low.C. siamea andC. alata showed an exceptionally high level of ash content (8.6 and 8.8%, respectively) while moisture content varied from 8 to 11%.
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Mondal, A.K., Parui, S. & Mandal, S. Biochemical analysis of four species ofCassia L. pollen. Aerobiologia 14, 45–50 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02694594
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