# Water-Soluble Sugars of Pedigreed Sorghum Mutant Stalks and Their Recovery after Pretreatment
## 3 Results and Discussion
### Chemical Composition of Pretreated Solid Biomass
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**Sample** & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Raw Sorghum Stalk**} & \multicolumn{3}{c}{**Pretretated Sorghum Stalk**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Mass**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Cellulose**} & \multicolumn{1}{c}{**Hemicululose**} \\
**Identity** & **Cellulose (\%)** & **Hemicululose (\%)** & **Ligmin (\%)** & **Cellulose (\%)** & **Hemicululose (\%)** & **Ligmin (\%)** & **Recovery (\%)** & **Recovery (\%)** & **Removal (\%)** \\ \hline E18A & 31.3 \(\pm\) 0.2a  & 26.5 \(\pm\) 0.6a & 13.8 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 53.4 \(\pm\) 0.3a & 6.4 \(\pm\) 0.1a & 29.1 \(\pm\) 0.6a & 53.7a & 91.6a & 87.0a \\ E18B & 29.3 \(\pm\) 0.3b & 26.6 \(\pm\) 0.7a & 13.9 \(\pm\) 0.3a & 52.0 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 7.6 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 29.6 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 52.1a & 92.5a & 85.2b \\ E20A & 28.0 \(\pm\) 0.1b & 24.6 \(\pm\) 0.9b & 12.8 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 50.0 \(\pm\) 0.4a & 5.9 \(\pm\) 0.3a & 28.3 \(\pm\) 0.4a & 50.8b & 90.9a & 87.9a \\ E20B & 29.8 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 22.6 \(\pm\) 1.2b & 12.2 \(\pm\) 0.1a & 52.0 \(\pm\) 0.9a & 5.8 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 25.7 \(\pm\) 0.6b & 53.0a & 92.3a & 86.3a \\ E25A & 30.2 \(\pm\) 0.5b & 23.9 \(\pm\) 0.6b & 11.9 \(\pm\) 0.1b & 55.8 \(\pm\) 1.4b & 6.9 \(\pm\) 0.4a & 27.2 \(\pm\) 1.1c & 48.8c & 90.4a & 85.9b \\ E25B & 28.0 \(\pm\) 0.7c & 24.0 \(\pm\) 0.5b & 11.8 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 50.3 \(\pm\) 0.6a & 5.8 \(\pm\) 0.2a & 27.4 \(\pm\) 0.8c & 48.5c & 86.9b & 88.3a \\ E30A & 27.7 \(\pm\) 0.8c & 21.0 \(\pm\) 0.3c & 11.0 \(\pm\) 0.5b & 52.2 \(\pm\) 0.7a & 5.0 \(\pm\) 0.3b & 27.5 \(\pm\) 0.9c & 43.6d & 82.3c & 89.6a \\ E30B & 25.7 \(\pm\) 0.2d & 23.2 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 11.6 \(\pm\) 0.6b & 50.9 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 6.9 \(\pm\) 0.6a & 30.6 \(\pm\) 0.8a & 42.4d & 84.0c & 87.4a \\ E35A & 24.2 \(\pm\) 0.4e & 19.3 \(\pm\) 0.5d & 9.6 \(\pm\) 0.6c & 49.6 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 5.4 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 26.9 \(\pm\) 0.6d & 42.5d & 87.3b & 88.0a \\ E35B & 24.3 \(\pm\) 0.3e & 19.5 \(\pm\) 0.1d & 10.0 \(\pm\) 0.5e & 49.5 \(\pm\) 0.6a & 4.8 \(\pm\) 0.3e & 29.1 \(\pm\) 0.7a & 40.7f & 83.1c & 90.0a \\ E40A & 19.8 \(\pm\) 0.2f & 18.0 \(\pm\) 0.2d & 9.5 \(\pm\) 0.4c & 47.0 \(\pm\) 0.8c & 5.2 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 29.5 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 36.8e & 87.4b & 89.3a \\ E40B & 21.2 \(\pm\) 0.5f & 18.1 \(\pm\) 0.3d & 8.9 \(\pm\) 0.3c & 50.3 \(\pm\) 0.3a & 5.3 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 27.0 \(\pm\) 0.6c & 36.9e & 87.5b & 89.2a \\ E45A & 18.6 \(\pm\) 0.8f & 15.2 \(\pm\) 0.5e & 8.5 \(\pm\) 0.2c & 47.1 \(\pm\) 0.2c & 5.3 \(\pm\) 0.5b & 28.8 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 35.5e & 89.7a & 87.6a \\ E45B & 19.2 \(\pm\) 0.6f & 14.9 \(\pm\) 0.4e & 8.1 \(\pm\) 0.4d & 48.5 \(\pm\) 0.4c & 4.3 \(\pm\) 0.3e & 28.9 \(\pm\) 0.8a & 32.9g & 83.1c & 90.5a \\ E52A & 18.3 \(\pm\) 0.4f & 14.9 \(\pm\) 0.3e & 6.6 \(\pm\) 0.2d & 51.5 \(\pm\) 0.5a & 5.5 \(\pm\) 0.4b & 27.2 \(\pm\) 0.3e & 29.3h & 82.3c & 89.2a \\ E52B & 18.1 \(\pm\) 0.5f & 14.7 \(\pm\) 0.2e & 6.7 \(\pm\) 0.3d & 51.3 \(\pm\) 0.7a & 5.3 \(\pm\) 0.2b & 28.1 \(\pm\) 0.4c & 29.9h & 84.5c & 89.3a \\ \hline \hline \end{tabular} Note: Samples E25A and E25B are wild-type sorghum and used as control; the remaining samples are pedigored sorghum mutant stalks. [FOOTNOTE:]Footnote : footnotemark: [ENDFOOTNOTE]  
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Table 3: Chemical composition of sorghum stalks before and after pretreatment.