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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
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