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Chemical characterization of tissue fractions from the middle lamella and secondary wall of black spruce tracheids

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Elemental and functional group analyses were carried out on tissue fractions from the secondary wall and middle lamella of black spruce tracheids. The secondary wall lignin was found to contain 1.7 times as much methoxyl per C9 as the middle lamella lignin, indicating a substantial proportion of unmethylated para-hydroxyphenylpropane residues in the middle lamella. The content of carbonyl groups was at least three times larger in middle lamella lignin than in secondary wall lignin. The carboxyl content of the middle lamella was found to be about three times as large as that of the secondary wall. Elemental analyses show a higher carbon and lower oxygen content in the middle lamella than in the secondary wall.

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Whiting, P., Goring, D.A.I. Chemical characterization of tissue fractions from the middle lamella and secondary wall of black spruce tracheids. Wood Sci. Technol. 16, 261–267 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00353149

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