. 2019 Mar 29;5(3):e01416. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2019.e01416

Table 1.

Composition of air-dried water hyacinth (%).

Plant part	Moisture	Ash	Hemicellulose	Lignin	Cellulose
Leaves	9.3 (0.21)^a	13.0 (0.10)^a	22.0 (0.45)^c	23.1 (0.25)^b	31.7 (0.25)^bc
Stem	9.3 (0.15)^a	20.2 (0.35)^c	16.1 (0.40)^a	20.8 (0.60)^a	33.3 (0.42)^c
Roots	9.3 (0.10)^a	24.1 (0.45)^d	19.7 (0.80)^b	20.6 (0.80)^a	26.1 (0.49)^a
Whole plant	9.2 (0.15)^a	18.4 (0.69)^b	20.8 (0.40)^bc	21.3 (0.26)^a	30.5 (1.30)^b

Note: The values in the parentheses are standard deviations (n = 3), different letters in the same column are significantly different (Tukey test; P ≤ 0.05 level).