Fig. 7

Glucose and xylose release from mature straw and entire shoots after enzymatic saccharification. The experiments were based on mature straw (a, c) or entire shoots (b, d) of the wild type (WT) and the Bdlsi1-1 mutant. Three different pretreatment conditions were used, viz. no pretreatment, low severity (120 °C) and medium severity (190 °C) pretreatment. The saccharification efficiency was determined by release of glucose (a, b) and xylose (c, d) from pretreated and hydrolyzed material. Data presented are mean (± SD, n = 3); different letters indicate significant differences between the samples (p ≤ 0.05) as assessed by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey’s HDS post hoc test