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. 2013 Jun 19;8(6):e66919. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0066919

Figure 1. Schematic overview of this study.

Figure 1

The effects of rice straw pretreatment on the cellulosic supramolecular structure and improvements in digestibility of lignocellulosic biomass for paddy soil microbiota were evaluated by physicochemical and biochemical methods. Rice straw samples were powdered using a blender, AM machine, and BM machine (1). Structural, compositional, thermodynamic, and degradability characterization (from 2–1 to 2–4) were performed using multimeasurement techniques such as FTIR, NMR, TG/DTA, and DGGE fingerprinting. Data were analyzed using the ECOMICS web-based toolkit.