TABLE 1.
Treatment of 14C-lignin-labelled SWKP with MnP increases the alkali extractability of the label but not its solubility
| SWKP | % of total radioactivitya
|
n | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Soluble | Alkali extractable | Cellulase lignin | ||
| MnP treated | 3.6a | 25.8a | 45.9a | 11 |
| Control (no MnP) | 1.8b | 17.0b | 56.8ab | 4 |
| Control (no Gox) | 5.1c | 14.2b | 65.6b | 7 |
| SD | ±1.0 | ±3.8 | ±8.4 | |
a
Data are the means of n (4 to 11) replicates. Within each column, numbers followed by the same letter are not significantly different at the 95% probability level by the Student-Newman-Kuels test.