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Table 2 Detergent fibers composition (g/g TS) and enzymatically digestible organic matter (g/g VS) of the sorghum feedstocks

From: Improved sugar yields from biomass sorghum feedstocks: comparing low-lignin mutants and pretreatment chemistries

 

Wild type

Stacked mutant

bmr6 mutant

bmr12 mutant

Neutral detergent fiber (NDF)

0.526 ± 0.002b

0.504 ± 0.007c

0.487 ± 0.005d

0.541 ± 0.007a

Acid detergent fiber (ADF)

0.277 ± 0.002b

0.267 ± 0.003bc

0.264 ± 0.001c

0.299 ± 0.010a

Acid detergent lignin (ADL)

0.0186 ± 0.0016a

0.0092 ± 0.0017c

0.0119 ± 0.0007bc

0.0147 ± 0.0010b

Cellulose Van Soest (ADF-ADL)

0.259 ± 0.001b

0.258 ± 0.002b

0.252 ± 0.001c

0.280 ± 0.001a

Hemicellulose Van Soest (NDF-ADF)

0.249 ± 0.004a

0.237 ± 0.008b

0.223 ± 0.005c

0.242 ± 0.004ab

Enzymatically digestible organic matter (eDOM)

0.590 ± 0.006d

0.675 ± 0.003a

0.643 ± 0.006b

0.624 ± 0.003c

  1. All analyses performed in triplicate. The uncertainty corresponds to 95% confidence interval of the mean. For each chemical compound, sorghum feedstocks with the same letter are not significantly different with the Tukey–Kramer multiple comparison test