Maize feedstocks with improved digestibility reduce the costs and environmental impacts of biomass pretreatment and saccharification

Table 3 Targeted comparison of cell wall compositional profiles for five commercial maize cultivars and their corresponding cell wall mutant counterparts

	CW	Lig	Cel/CW	Hem/CW	Lig/CW	pCa I	pCa II	FA I	FA II	Di-FA I	Di-FA II	DHS	H	S	G
HYB-010	630	63	583	318	99	26.9	25.0	7.57	10.0	0.04	0.12	0.12	3.7	16.3	12.2
HYB-010-bm3	625	41*^,b	555*	377*	66*	17.4*	15.8*	7.57	10.0	0.09*	0.19	0.14*	2.4*	6.9*	9.6
HYB-011	657	64	572	331	97	24.1	22.6	7.20	9.85	0.06	0.17	0.13	3.3	14.1	11.6
HYB-011-bm3	638	46*	560	368*	72*	17.8*	16.7*	7.44	9.58	0.10	0.18	0.13	2.6	6.5*	10.0
HYB-006	682	68	587	312	100	27.1	25.0	8.31	10.70	0.04	0.11	0.11	3.8	15.1	11.5
HYB-006-bm1	690	61	573	340	88	19.7*	17.9*	7.57*	9.73*	0.04	0.11	0.11	2.8*	11.6*	10.2
HYB-009	672	72	590	304	106	29.5	27.3	8.16	10.70	0.04	0.11	0.11	4.2	16.8	12.7
HYB-009-bm1	684	58	563*	353*	85*	17.9*	16.5*	7.43*	9.59*	0.06	0.15	0.12	2.6*	10.7*	10.1*
HYB-014	704	81	594	292	114	32.1	30.0	7.83	10.71	0.01	0.08	0.10	4.8	18.2	15.1
HYB-014-bm1	678	64*	580	326*	94*	23.0*	21.1*	7.52	9.89	0.03	0.08	0.10	3.4*	13.1*	12.4*
F probability^a	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***	***

^aSignificance of differences between entries as determined by ANOVA; p < 0.05 (*), p < 0.01(**), and p < 0.001(***), NS indicates non-significant differences
^bFor any specified stem fiber/cell wall component, “*” denotes a significant difference between an experimental mutant and its corresponding hybrid counterpart according to a Tukey HSD test (P = 0.05)

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