Table I. HPLC analysis of mucilage and cell wall monosaccharide composition from wild-type and mutant seeds.

Values shown are averages of three replicates ± se. n.d. Not determined.

Sugar	Soluble Mucilage				Whole Seed Enriched Cell Wall Fraction
	Col-0	cesa5-1	cesa2-1cesa9-1	cesa2-1cesa5-1cesa9-1	Col-0	cesa5-1	cesa2-1cesa9-1	cesa2-1cesa5-1cesa9-1
mg sugar g−1 seed
Ara	0.33 ± 0.096	0.50 ± 0.10	0.244 ± 0.012	0.26 ± 0.06	53.10 ± 1.73	62.87 ± 0.59	54.56 ± 1.96	62.94 ± 0.59
Rha	10.31 ± 0.41	12.48 ± 0.17a	11.51 ± 1.52	12.56 ± 0.29a	32.45 ± 2.17	22.20 ± 1.49a	36.45 ± 1.99a	22.41 ± 0.16
Gal	0.32 ± 0.11	0.29 ± 0.021	0.18 ± 0.023	0.14 ± 0.012	50.62 ± 0.80	53.82 ± 0.40	52.54 ± 1.18	50.04 ± 0.46
Glu	0.73 ± 0.18	0.57 ± 0.037	0.37 ± 0.069	0.516 ± 0.070	10.08 ± 0.30	7.65 ± 0.34a	10.11 ± 0.12	7.06 ± 0.34
Xyl	1.05 ± 0.06	1.06 ± 0.040	1.06 ± 0.12	0.96 ± 0.062	27.14 ± 1.93	19.47 ± 2.65	26.31 ± 1.29	19.23 ± 0.92
GalA	9.21 ± 0.47	12.27 ± 2.14	9.50 ± 1.57	13.0 ± 2.04	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.	n.d.

^aSignificantly different from Col-0 (P < 0.05).