Fig. 7

Monosaccharide yields in hydrolysates of the woody tissues of PttSCAMP3 RNAi lines and wild type. Monosaccharide composition in wild type (WT) and PttSCAMP3 RNAi lines detected after acid hydrolysis (72% w/w sulfuric acid). The hydrolysis releases arabinose, galactose, glucose, xylose and mannose from the secondary cell wall arabinan, galactan, glucan, xylan and mannan, respectively. Values are given as a percentage of g monosaccharide (in anhydrous form) per g dry weight of wood ± SD. Values are mean of three technical replicates, each of which containing equal amounts of wood powder pooled from five biological replicates for the transgenic lines and from five replicate pools of wild type trees. The “total” columns indicate the sum of the individual monosaccharide abundances. Asterisks indicate significant differences from the wild type at P < 0.05 (*) and P < 0.01 (**) according to Welch-corrected t-test