Table 2.

Cell Wall Sugar Composition of the Stems of the Wild Type and fra3 Mutant (mg/g Dry Cell Wall)

Sample	Glucose	Xylose	Mannose	Galactose	Arabinose	Rhamnose
Wild type	277 ± 0.7	144 ± 4.2	17.4 ± 0	15.7 ± 0.4	13.5 ± 0.5	4.1 ± 0.6
fra3	174 ± 16	136 ± 4.9	17.8 ± 0.7	13.2 ± 0	12.1 ± 0.6	3.9 ± 0.2

Cell wall materials were prepared from mature stems of 10-week-old plants. Data are means ± se of two independent assays.