“…Arabinogalactans have been isolated from plant tissues ofdiverse origin. They can be readily extracted, usually with water, and have been obtained from coniferous woods (Aspinall, 1959;Timell, 1965), coffee beans (Wolfrom &Patin, 1965;Wolfrom &Anderson, 1967), soya-bean seeds (Morita, 1965a,b;Aspinall et al, 1967a,b), aquatic moss (Geddes & Wilkie, 1971), Saguaro cactus cortex (Steelink et al, 1968), apple fruit (Barrett & Northcote, 1965; Knee, 1973), rapeseed (Siddiqui & Wood, 1972), Siratro leaves (Ford, 1972), broad-bean leaves (Pusztai et al, 1971), and from suspension-cultured cells of tomato and sycamore (Lamport, 1970).…”