. 2021 Sep 30;45(1):12–22. doi: 10.1111/pce.14193

Table 2.

δ²H_ne values of plant‐derived sugar, starch and cellulose from leaf material

		δ²H_ne Starch [‰]		δ²H_ne Sugar [‰]		δ²H_ne Cellulose [‰]		Difference in δ²H_ne [‰]
	Species	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Mean	SD	Cell‐starch	Sugar‐starch	Cell‐sugar
C ₃	*Cannabis sativa*	−125.0	27.1	−99.4	15.9	−56.1	6.4	68.9	25.6	43.3
	*Solanum cheesmaniae*	−147.0	17.2	−99.4	6.9	−78.4	6.1	68.6	47.6	21
	*Salvia hispanica*	−133.9	23.3	−75.9	9.1	−50.0	18.1	83.8	58.0	25.8
	*Abelmoschus esculentus*	−126.1	12.3	−110.5	7.3	−63.4	10.6	62.7	15.5	47.1
	*Hordeum vulgare*	−76.7 ^a	^a	−74.8	5.1	−59.0	4.9	17.7	1.9	15.8
	mean	−121.7	20.0	−92.0	8.9	−61.4	9.2	60.3	29.7	30.6
C ₄	*Zea mays*	−60.6 ^a	^a	−44.8	2.6	−7.7	9.3	52.9	15.8	37.1
	*Sorghum bicolor*	−61.2 ^a	^a	−20.2	3.7	−25.3	6.7	35.9	41.0	−5.1
	mean	−60.9	^a	−32.5	3.2	−16.5	8.0	44.4	28.4	16.0
CAM	*Portulaca grandiflora*	−24.8	33.7	−12.8	15.1	14.9	5.7	39.7	11.9	27.7
	*Kalanchoe daigremontiana*	−18.0	2.3	−13.2	3.6	−5.6	5.3	12.4	4.8	7.6
	*Phalaenopsis*	12.1 ^a	^a	44.2	2.2	23.3	1.2	11.2	32.1	−20.9
	mean	−10.2	18.0	6.0	6.9	10.9	4.0	21.1	16.3	4.8

Note: Plant species differing in photosynthetic pathways were grown under the same controlled conditions.

^{^a}

Due to low yields, starch samples of three replicates were pooled for H. vulgare, Z. mays, S. bicolor and Phalaenopsis, and thus could be only measured once.