| The salvage pathways combine adenine with a pentose to alter the adenosine nucleotide pool inventory. |
| The pentose phosphate pathway is primarily an anabolic pathway that utilizes the 6 carbons of glucose to generate 5 carbon sugars and reducing equivalents. |
| This is an important point since this enzyme plays an essential role in the oxidative pentose phosphate pathway and, therefore, in plant metabolism. |
| But most of the natural gums yield a mixture of galactose, some pentose, and some complex organic acid. |
| Mucilage, consisting of polysaccharides containing hexose and pentose sugars and uronic acids, is secreted by root cells as the root grows through the soil. |
| They bear the same relation to the pentose sugars as do the dextrosans to glucose, etc. |
