Perishable foods like fruits and vegetables, meat, fish, and dairy products have short shelf-
life that causes significant postharvest losses, which poses a major challenge for food …

Pectin is an important polysaccharide with applications in foods, Pharmaceuticals, and a
number of other industries. Its importance in the food sector lies in its ability to form gel in the …

Pectin or pectic substances are collective names for a group of closely associated
polysaccharides present in plant cell walls where they contribute to complex physiological …

Degradation of plant cell wall polysaccharides is of major importance in the food and feed,
beverage, textile, and paper and pulp industries, as well as in several other industrial …

Comprehensive in scope, Food Polysaccharides and Their Applications, Second Edition
explains the production aspects and the chemical and physical properties of the main …

Pectin is an anionic cell wall polysaccharide which is known to interact with divalent cations
via its nonmethylesterified galacturonic acid units. Due to its cation‐binding capacity …

Pectic substances are a group of polysaccharides in plant cell walls and some mucilages,
which are endowed with multifunctional properties in muro as well as out of muro, such as …

This review deals with recent advances in the structural characterization of pectins and the
gels which they form, in relation to auxin‐induced extension growth, the ripening of fruit, and …

Publisher Summary This chapter discusses the applications, properties, and production of
pectin, pectinase, and protopectinase. Pectic substances are acid polysaccharides of high …

To develop antibody probes for the neutral side chains of pectins, antisera were generated
to a pectic galactan isolated from tomato (Lycopersicon esculentum) pericarp cell walls and …