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Contents of Plant Structural Components

Plant Structural Components

links to the pictures

http://scidacreview.org/0905/html/biofuel

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2014/cs/c4cs00235k

lignin cellulose hemicellulose.jpg

Ligning, cellulose, and hemicellulose.jpg

Lecture Notes

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.