Table 1 Chemical composition of low-productivity and high-productivity hybrids from two plantation sites (shown as weight percentage)
Site | Hybrid | Raw biomass composition (%) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Glucan | Xylan | Minor sugars | Total sugars | Lignin | Acetic acid | Ash | Extractives | ||
Jefferson | Low-productivity | 33.2 | 11.9 | 4.4 | 49.5 | 26.8 | 6.1 | 3.4 | 16.7 |
0.5 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.2 | 1.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | ||
High-productivity | 34.3 | 12.9 | 4.0 | 51.2 | 26.4 | 6.8 | 4.9 | 10.0 | |
0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 0.1 | 0.5 | 0.7 | ||
Clarksburg | Low-productivity | 36.6 | 12.3 | 4.1 | 53.0 | 27.0 | 6.2 | 3.2 | 16.4 |
0.3 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.2 | 0.0 | 0.9 | ||
High-productivity | 37.5 | 12.5 | 3.6 | 53.6 | 27.5 | 6.2 | 2.7 | 14.5 | |
0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.7 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.5 | ||