Determining the polysaccharide composition of plant cell walls

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1590-1607

  Pettolino, Filomena A ^a   Walsh, Cherie ^b   Fincher, Geoffrey B ^c   Bacic, Antony ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ADELAIDE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALDITOL ACETATE; CARBOXYL GROUP; FUEL; MONOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; SUGAR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AGRICULTURE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CELL WALL; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; FOOD INDUSTRY; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHYLATION; PLANT CELL; PLANT DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEXTILE INDUSTRY;

ANALYTIC SAMPLE PREPARATION METHODS; CELL WALL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; METHYLATION; PLANTS; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 84866078629     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.081     Document Type: Article

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