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Table 1 Carbohydrate content in various agricultural wastes (lignocellulosic biomass) (%)

From: Tracking strategic developments for conferring xylose utilization/fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Biomass

Glucose

Xylose

Mannose

Galactose

Arabinose

Reference

Rice straw

41–43.4

14.8–20.2

1.8

0.4

2.7–4.5

Karimi et al. (2006)

Wheat straw

38.8 ± 0.5

22.2 ± 0.3

1.7 ± 0.2

2.7 ± 0.1

4.7 ± 0.1

Erdei et al. (2010)

Corn straw

39

14.8

0.3

0.8

3.2

Lee (1997)

Bagasse

38.1

23.3

–

1.1

2.5

Lee (1997)