Plant Structural Components
http://scidacreview.org/0905/html/biofuel
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/cs/c4cs00235k
We've seen portions of this slide in the past. Remember that the three main components of biomass stems are lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose. We are interested primarily in cellulose in the conversion of stems into ethanol.