Table II. Deduced cell wall polysaccharide contents in maize pulvini.

Monosaccharide linkages were summarized according to their representation of individual polysaccharides as described by Shea et al. (1989) and Zhu et al. (2005). Values in bold are statistically significant (P < 0.05) using a Student’s t test. AG, Arabinogalactan.

Polysaccharide	Node 9			Node 11
	Control	Upper	Lower	Control	Upper	Lower
Arabinan	0.6	0.8	0.9	0.9	1.3	0.8
Type II AG	0.1	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.0
Arabinoxylan	22.3	27.4	28.6	22.1	21.9	30.3
(1,3;1,4)-β-Glucan	6.6	6.8	6.6	7.3	5.6	5.6
Xyloglucan	5.5	5.0	4.6	7.6	6.1	4.9
Heteromannan	7.9	5.6	4.9	9.7	8.0	4.7
Cellulose	54.8	54.3	54.2	49.4	53.2	52.5