Table 1.

Molar composition of monosaccharides in the cell wall fractions

Monosaccharide (mol/100 mol of total sugars)
Fraction		Man	Rha	Glc	Xyl	Ara	Fuc	Rib	Gal	GalAc
WSF	Nike	10.04 ± 0.87	5.88 ± 0.35	21.65 ± 0.63	2.38 ± 0.22	6.01 ± 0.31	0	0	24.80 ± 0.89	29.33 ± 1.63
	B14	10.41 ± 1.10	5.47 ± 0.61	24.67 ± 0.39*	2.27 ± 0.43	3.65 ± 1.08	0	1.67 ± 0.21	22.62 ± 1.22	29.62 ± 2.25
CSF	Nike	1.83 ± 0.10	1.54 ± 0.07	4.50 ± 0.25	2.99 ± 0.57	1.47 ± 0.21	0	1.06 ± 0.24	7.96 ± 1.18	78.80 ± 2.47
	B14	1.79 ± 0.41	1.39 ± 0.20	5.75 ± 0.51**	1.85 ± 0.26**	1.33 ± 0.11	0	0	6.70 ± 1.34	80.97 ± 2.15
NSF	Nike	5.56 ± 0.36	2.16 ± 0.05	14.78 ± 1.43	1.26 ± 0.08	2.56 ± 0.27	0	0	9.45 ± 0.83	65.07 ± 0.64
	B14	5.50 ± 1.71	1.11 ± 0.06**	20.77 ± 1.39**	1.02 ± 0.04**	1.85 ± 0.22**	0	0	7.40 ± 0.86*	67.41 ± 3.80
K1SF	Nike	15.76 ± 0.94	4.45 ± 0.65	26.99 ± 2.65	3.78 ± 1.38	3.04 ± 0.60	0	0.76 ± 0.18	14.68 ± 1.30	29.29 ± 3.47
	B14	23.17 ± 0.83**	2.74 ± 0.51**	41.01 ± 6.01**	4.44 ± 0.42	1.58 ± 0.23**	0	0*	9.48 ± 3.29*	17.53 ± 1. 84**
K4SF	Nike	6.71 ± 0.39	4.97 ± 0.58	22.30 ± 8.84	5.34 ± 0.39	3.76 ± 1.26	0.87 ± 0.04	0	20.42 ± 7.51	36.65 ± 2.40
	B14	5.19 ± 0.74	3.41 ± 0.13	19.92 ± 1.62	14.38 ± 0.41**	2.93 ± 0.59	1.46 ± 0.14	0	12.59 ± 0.01	39.62 ± 1.14

The amount of mol of the studied monosaccharides to 100 mol of monosaccharides in the cell wall fractions (WSF – water-soluble fraction, CSF – CDTA-soluble fraction, NSF – Na₂CO₃-soluble fraction, K1SF – 1 M KOH-soluble fraction and K4SF – 4 M KOH-soluble fraction) for fibres from transgenic flax line B14 and the non-transgenic control flax Nike. Man – mannose, Rha – rhamnose, Glc – glucose, Xyl – xylose, Ara – arabinose, Fuc- fucose, Rib – ribose, Gal – galactose and GalAc – galacturonic acid. Data represents the mean values ± SD from three independent experiments. The significance of the differences between the means was determined using Student’s t test (* - P < 0.05, ** - P < 0.01).