Table II. Monosaccharide composition of cell walls from inflorescence stems of the wild type and GT43 mutants.
The wall residues for cell wall composition analysis were prepared from stems. The data are means (mg g−1 dry cell wall) ± se of duplicate assays.
| Sample | Xyl | Glc | Man | Gal | Ara | Rha |
| Wild type | 110.4 ± 1.4 | 402.0 ± 0.2 | 18.0 ± 0.4 | 14.6 ± 0.2 | 11.0 ± 0.2 | 11.7 ± 0.4 |
| irx9 | 57.2 ± 0.3 | 336.9 ± 0.4 | 35.1 ± 0.1 | 39.9 ± 1.3 | 23.8 ± 0.2 | 13.9 ± 0.6 |
| i9H | 106.6 ± 3.8 | 418.1 ± 4.5 | 17.5 ± 0.7 | 13.9 ± 0.6 | 9.0 ± 0.1 | 10.4 ± 0.1 |
| irx14 | 59.5 ± 2.1 | 346.5 ± 7.5 | 24.6 ± 2.5 | 16.2 ± 1.3 | 11.2 ± 0.1 | 10.9 ± 0.5 |
| i14h | 102.3 ± 4.8 | 391.8 ± 7.6 | 17.9 ± 2.3 | 15.1 ± 1.1 | 10.3 ± 0.5 | 10.6 ± 0.5 |
| irx9 i9h (+/−) | 40.2 ± 1.1 | 329.7 ± 8.4 | 40.4 ± 2.1 | 43.4 ± 1.4 | 35.8 ± 1.1 | 19.4 ± 2.0 |
| irx9 irx14 | 26.5 ± 0.5 | 292.4 ± 5.3 | 20.2 ± 4.8 | 49.3 ± 3.4 | 26.0 ± 1.9 | 12.1 ± 0.2 |
| irx9 i14h | 49.2 ± 1.7 | 337.9 ± 13.4 | 30.6 ± 1.5 | 23.1 ± 1.8 | 15.2 ± 1.3 | 13.7 ± 0.9 |
| i9h irx14 | 59.3 ± 3.9 | 358.0 ± 15.7 | 25.7 ± 2.9 | 15.6 ± 1.7 | 11.2 ± 0.5 | 11.9 ± 0.3 |
| i9h i14h | 94.2 ± 21.9 | 366.7 ± 24.3 | 12.6 ± 0.4 | 12.3 ± 1.0 | 8.9 ± 0.4 | 9.5 ± 0.5 |
| irx14 i14h | 29.1 ± 1.8 | 251.7 ± 11.1 | 24.3 ± 1.8 | 26.9 ± 2.2 | 19.3 ± 1.1 | 13.9 ± 0.6 |