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27: 176: 539: 239:, and envelope flaps. Differing types and varying strengths of mucilage can also be used for other adhesive applications, including gluing labels to metal cans, wood to china, and leather to pasteboard. During the fermentation of 255:
react with soybean sugars to produce mucilage. The amount and viscosity of the mucilage are important nattō characteristics, contributing to nattō's unique taste and smell.
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Harper, J. L.; Benton, R. A. (1 January 1966). "The Behaviour of Seeds in Soil: II. The Germination of Seeds on the Surface of a Water Supplying Substrate".
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The presence of mucilage in seeds affects important ecological processes in some plant species, such as tolerance of water stress, competition via
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which use it for their locomotion, with the direction of their movement always opposite to that of the secretion of mucilage. It is a
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as it relieves irritation of mucous membranes by forming a protective film. It is known to act as a soluble, or viscous,
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The following plant and algae species are known to contain far greater concentrations of mucilage than typical:
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that produce a sweet mucus. The Sierra Mixe is a tall variety that survives in poor soils without
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that thickens the fecal mass, an example being the consumption of fiber supplements containing
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Yang, Xuejun; Zhang, Wenhao; Dong, Ming; Boubriak, Ivan; Huang, Zhenying (2 September 2011).
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damage. The amount of mucilage produced per seed has been shown to vary across the
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of a species, in relation with local environmental conditions of the populations.
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Lu, Juanjuan; Tan, Dunyan; Baskin, Jerry M.; Baskin, Carol C. (1 June 2010).
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Thick, gluey substance produced by nearly all plants and some microorganisms
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Glue, Gelatine, Animal Charcoal, Phosphorus, Cements, Pastes, and Mucilage
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Hasegawa, K.; Mizutani, J.; Kosemura, S.; Yamamura, S. (1 October 1992).
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and cough medicine, and is still produced commercially for that purpose.
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of the world's soils. The substance covers the outside of, for example,
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Glass container for mucilage, from the first half of the 20th century
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are known to produce exopolysaccharides at a certain point in their
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Dietary Reference Intakes: Proposed Definition of Dietary Fiber
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were made from the extract of the mucilaginous root of the
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Exopolysaccharides are the most stabilising factor for
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University of Maryland Medical Center. 1236: 246:, extracellular enzymes produced by the 174: 25: 669:International Carnivorous Plant Society 665:"Carnivorous Plant Trapping Mechanisms" 1259: 848: 728:from the original on 17 November 2015. 653:from the original on 24 December 2017. 144:Mucilage has a unique purpose in some 1197: 739:Spitzenberger, Ray (23 August 2007). 584:from the original on 24 December 2017 861:from the original on 29 October 2008 632: 784: 13: 687: 294:Ecological implications for plants 183:Mucilage is edible. It is used in 14: 1288: 1224: 675:from the original on 6 April 2016 614:from the original on 15 June 2017 1159:10.1111/j.1438-8677.2012.00684.x 537: 352: 1198:Daley, Jason (10 August 2018). 1123: 1056: 999: 942: 899: 842: 809: 51:. These microorganisms include 766:Dawidowsky, Ferdinand (1905). 759: 732: 714: 694:Institute of Medicine (2001). 657: 626: 596: 566: 98:and are widely distributed in 1: 881:"Vad gjorde man med mjölken?" 559: 258:The mucilage of two kinds of 170: 89: 1090:10.1371/journal.pone.0024346 797:. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew 633:Paul, Eldon A., ed. 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Index

mucigel

sundew
plants
microorganisms
protists
polar
glycoprotein
exopolysaccharide
water
food
germination
succulents
flax
microaggregates
soils
algae
ecology
unicellular
filamentous
green algae
cyanobacteria
Volvocales
life cycle
tannins
alkaloids
carnivorous plants
genera
Drosera
Pinguicula

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