  The recent observations of f_0(980) in charmless B-decays motivate further
studies of scalar particle and glueball production in these processes.
Amplitudes for charmless 2-body B decays involving the members of the scalar
nonet are presented based on the symmetries of the dominant penguin
contribution. Different scenarios for the lightest scalar nonet are
investigated in view of the presently available data. We describe the evidence
from B-decays for f_0(1500) with a flavour octet like mixing and the hints
towards the members of the q qbar nonet of lowest mass. There is further
support for the hypothesis of a broad 0^{++} glueball acting as coherent
background especially in B -> K Kbar K. The estimated B decay rates into
gluonic mesons represent a sizable fraction of the theoretically derived decay
rate for b -> sg.
