Patent ID: 8329426
Filing Date: 2012-12-11
Classification: G01N,Y02E

Abstract:
1. A high-throughput method for measuring total fermentable compounds in a plant part, the method comprising: providing less than 250 milligrams of the plant part, wherein the plant part is selected from a leaf, stem, root, root tip, anther, seed, grain, embryo, pollen, ovule, flower, cotyledon, hypocotyl, pod, flower, shoot and stalk, and wherein the plant part comprises at least one fermentable compound; incubating the at least one fermentable compound under conditions that allow fermentation of the at least one fermentable compound, wherein the fermentation results in a fermentation mixture comprising ethanol; heating the fermentation mixture under conditions that allow evaporation of the ethanol; and determining the weight loss of the plant part due to heating the fermentation mixture under conditions that allow evaporation of the ethanol and thereby determining the amount of said at least one fermentable compound in the plant part.