Table 1.

Glycosyl linkage compositions of the gum and mucilage polysaccharides from NZ native plants.

		Composition (mol%)a
Sugar	Linkage	Puka [14]	NZ flax [15]	Mamaku [16]	Houhere [17]
Rhamnose	terminal-p	9	-b	3	-
	2-p	-	-	-	22
	2,3-p				3
	2,4-p	-	-	-	8
Arabinose	terminal-p	8	-	2	-
	terminal-f	23	9	1	-
	3-f	7	-	-	-
	5-f	9	-	-	-
Xylose	terminal-p	-	33	9	-
	2-p	-	4	2	-
	4-p	-	2	3	-
	2,4-p	-	17	-	-
	2,3,4-p	-	16	-	-
Galactose	terminal-p	-	-	15	15
	3,6-p	19	-	1	-
	3,4,6-p	9	-	-	-
Mannose	2,3-p	-	-	9	-
	2,3,4-p	-	-	11	-
Galacturonic acid	terminal-p	-	-	-	12
	4-p	-	-	-	7
	3,4-p	-	-	-	14
Glucuronic acid	terminal-p	8	15	2	16
	3-p	-	-	6	-
	4-p	6	-	28	-
Other minor linkage		2	4	8	3

^a values are the averages of duplicate analyses; ^b-, not detected.