Table 1.

Monosaccharide compositional analysis of wall residues from the culms of wild-type and bc14 plants (μg mg⁻¹ AIR)

Residues	Rhamnose	Fucose	Arabinose	Xylose	Mannose	Galactose	Glucose	GalUA	GlcUA	Cellulose
WT	3.5 ± 0.0*	0.9 ± 0.0	86.2 ± 1.1*	280.6 ± 1.8*	0.4 ± 0.0*	9.9 ± 0.3*	45.2 ± 1.1*	10.1 ± 0.3*	6.5 ± 0.4*	374.2 ± 5.6*
bc14	5.4 ± 0.3*	1.0 ± 0.1	157.0 ± 8.0*	400.4 ± 23.4*	2.1 ± 0.1*	15.1 ± 0.6*	31.0 ± 1.1*	16.6 ± 0.3*	11.0 ± 1.2*	234.9 ± 9.8*
pBC14F	2.9 ± 0.1*	0.8 ± 0.0	63.1 ± 0.9*	249.3 ± 2.1*	0.4 ± 0.0*	10.3 ± 0.3*	74.1 ± 1.6*	10.8 ± 0.2*	5.3 ± 0.0*	361.5 ± 18.7*

The mounts of monosaccharides are as determined by GC-MS analysis of trimethylsilane derivatives. Cellulose is as determined by Updegraff quantification after TFA hydrolysis.

*Significantly different (t test at P < 0.05) compared with wild type (n = 4) ± SD.