INDEX 



Precipitation limits with ammonium sulphate 



of various vegetable proteins, 52. 

 Precipitine reaction, 98. 

 Primary protein derivatives, 73, 88. 

 Prolamin, absent from rice, 80. 



definition of, 80. 



from sorghum seeds, 80. 



from the oat kernel, 80. 

 Prolamins, 72, 80. 

 Protamines, 72, 81. 



not found in plants, 81. 

 Proteans, 73. 



definition of, 38. 

 Protein nucleates, 20. 



proportion of, in wheat flour, 9. 



salts, 20. 

 Proteins in buds, 7. 



in bulbs, 7, 8. 



in cell sap, 7. 



in cytoplasm, 8. 



in dicotyledonous seeds, 8. 



in different parts of plants, 7. 



in monocotyledonous seeds, 7. 



in protoplasm, 8. 



in roots, 7, 8. 



in seeds, 7. 



in the embryo, 8. 



in the endosperm, 8. 



in the nuclei, 8. 



in tubers, 7, 8. 



in wheat embryo, 9. 

 Proteoses, 73, 89. 



extracted with water, 30. 



in the embryo, 8, 9. 



isolation of, 14. 



physiological effect of vegetable pro- 



teoses, 53. 



primary constituents or secondary deri- 



vatives of the seed (?), 89. 



REACTIONS for carbohydrate, 55. 

 Reserve protein, 5, 8, 9. 



protein, similarity to animal albumin- 



oids, 10. 

 Ricin, 12, 92. 



association of toxic properties with pro- 



tein substance, 94. 



fractional precipitation of, 94. 



from the castor bean, 74. 



isolation from associated proteins, 94. 



probable protein nature of, 96. 

 Robin, 94. 



SECONDARY protein derivatives, 73, 89. 

 Separation of seed proteins from one another 



and from other substances, 12, 15. 

 Simple proteins, 72. 

 Solubility in acids and alkalies, 33. 



in alcohol, 33. 



in different solvents, n. 



in saline solutions, 5, 31. 



in water, 30. 



Specific rotation of vegetable proteins, 47. 

 Stability of seed proteins, 10. 

 Sulphur as cystine, possible amount of, in 

 various proteins, 69. 



estimation of possible empirical formulas 



from proportion of, 70. 



in vegetable proteins, 64, 65. 



ratio to sulphide sulphur, 65. 



TOXALBUMIN from rye pollen, its relation to 



hay fever, 94. 

 Toxalbumins, 92. 

 Tuberin from the potato, 78. 



ULTIMATE composition of vegetable pro- 

 teins, 50. 



VEGETABLE globulins, 5. 



mucin, 87. 



proteins, supposed identity with animal 



proteins, 5. 



Vicilin from different seeds, 78. 

 Vignin from the cow pea, 78. 

 Vitellin, vegetable, 76. 



WHEAT embryo, composition of the protein 

 constituent of the nucleic acid com- 

 pounds of, 83, 84. 



embryo, nucleoproteins from, 83, 85. 



gluten, discovery of solubility in alcohol, 



3- 



gluten, discovery of the protein nature 



of, i. 



gluten, first description of the properties 



of, 2. 



ZEIN, denatured by alcohol, 43. 



first named by Gorham, 4. 



from maize, 80, 81. 



solubility in alcohol of various concen- 



trations, 34. 



solubility in glacial acetic acid, 33. 



solubility in various organic solvents, 34. 

 Zymom, first named by Taddei, 4. 



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