Can we use short rotation coppice poplar for sugar based biorefinery feedstock? Bioconversion of 2-year-old poplar grown as short rotation coppice

Table 5 Sugar yield in WSF after steam explosion (expressed as kg/tonne raw biomass)

	Arabinose		Galactose		Glucose		Xylose		Mannose		Total sugars
	Total	% mon^a	Total	% mon	Total	% mon	Total	% mon	Total	% mon	Total	% mon
NLC	9.7 ± 0.3	100	8.5 ± 0.2	90	63.5 ± 2.5	78	96.0 ± 1.2	81	14.3 ± 1.1	79	192.1 ± 0.1	82
WTC	9.1 ± 1.2	100	7.5 ± 0.7	71	39.2 ± 4.1	64	45.5 ± 2.4	71	7.0 ± 0.3	65	108.3 ± 0.3	70
LC	7.6 ± 0.2	60	5.6 ± 0.8	23	15.8 ± 2.1	41	6.9 ± 1.2	10	1.1 ± 0.1	33	37.0 ± 0.2	36
WWF	2.9 ± 0.2	93	5.4 ± 0.4	79	62.9 ± 0.7	76	122.2 ± 8.9	87	16.8 ± 1.0	85	210.3 ± 0.5	83

± All data are represented as the mean of triplicate measurement
^a“% mono” describes the percentage of soluble sugar presented in monomeric form

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