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hemicellulose - Any cellulose-like carbohydrate, but excluding cellulose itself. Together with pectin and lignin, hemicelluloses form the cell wall matrix. [FAO]

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Possibilities for sugar cane use, assistance for BAMC  -  Aug 18, 2007
Barbados Advocate,Not only would this approach enable the industry to break bagasse into its components (lignin + cellulose + hemicellulose) to produce platform chemicals,

Pig Manure Key to Soldier Chow?  -  Aug 7, 2007
Wired NewsThese novel "fibr-biotics" are able to break down non-digestible fiber (cellulose and hemicellulose) into glucose, which can be directly absorbed for energy

Two Bacteria Better Than One In Cellulose-fed Fuel Cell  -  Jul 27, 2007
Science Daily (press release)Along with lignin and hemicellulose, they make up huge amounts of the biomass produced by plants. Some animals, ruminants and termites for example,

More Profits a Possibility with Corn Pre-Fractionation  -  Aug 7, 2007
Ethanol Producer Magazine,In addition, he stresses the residual hemicellulose and lignins (the only portion with no food value) can be used to fuel the operation.

Spartan Corn Grows Enzymes  -  Aug 2, 2007
Ethanol Producer Magazine,The stover would go through pretreatment to free the cellulose and hemicellulose from the lignin, and then be reunited with the enzyme-bearing fluid for

Photosynthesis may be the single most important process for all ...  -  Jul 26, 2007
VHeadline.com,...the polysaccharides: cellulose; non-cellulose polysaccharides such as xylans; and mannans; hemicellulose; pectins; and -- in woody plants-- lignin.

Smith Looks for Other Ways to Make Ethanol  -  Jul 24, 2007
Wallace's Farmer,Smith specifically plans to screen the lignin, hemicellulose and cellulose content of biofuel plant stocks, such as switchgrass, Miscanthus (a subtropical




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