Isolation and characterization of cereal cell walls

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Table 1. Mean values for cell wall contents (g/100 g) of different varieties of cereals

Cereals	Wheat		Barley		Sorghum
	Ujala-16	FSD-08	Jau-87	Haider-93	Sorghum-11	JS-02
Cell wall	5.68 ± 0.15^a	5.21 ± 0.19^b	8.32 ± 0.21^b	8.99 ± 0.23^a	4.02 ± 0.12^a	3.88 ± 0.07^a

Mean values carrying same letters are significantly identical.

Table 2. Mean values for monosaccharides (%) in endospermic cell wall of different cereals

Cereals	Varieties	Arabinose	Xylose	Mannose	Galactose	Glucose
Wheat	Ujala-16	33.93 ± 0.06^a	49.62 ± 0.12^a	6.58 ± 0.01^b	2.52 ± 0.03^b	1.98 ± 0.34^a
	FSD-08	33.59 ± 0.11^b	45.54 ± 0.13^b	6.85 ± 0.13^a	2.55 ± 0.04^a	1.64 ± 0.08^b
Barley	Jau-87	8.98 ± 0.01^a	9.94 ± 0.07^a	2.00 ± 0.04^b	2.72 ± 0.06^b	77.11 ± 0.13^b
	Haider-93	8.75 ± 0.03^b	10.10 ± 0.06^b	1.88 ± 0.01^a	3.07 ± 0.05^a	77.51 ± 0.04^a
Sorghum	Sorghum-11	2.25 ± 0.01^a	2.47 ± 0.06^b	0.19 ± 0.18^b	0.21 ± 0.06^a	0.90 ± 0.02^a
	JS-02	2.10 ± 0.04^b	2.52 ± 0.03^a	0.34 ± 0.02^a	0.08 ± 0.06^b	0.77 ± 0.03^b

Mean values carrying same letters are significantly identical.

Table 3. Mean values for β-glucan (g/100 g) and total phenolic content (mg gallic acid/g cell wall) in endospermic cell wall of cereals

Cereals	Wheat		Barley		Sorghum
	Ujala-16	FSD-08	Jau-87	Haider-93	Sorghum-11	JS-02
β-glucan	4.77 ± 0.04^a	4.59 ± 0.08^b	38.41 ± 0.08^b	39.83 ± 0.06^a	0.17 ± 0.03^a	0.19 ± 0.08^a
Total phenolics	0.14 ± 0.01^b	0.19 ± 0.02^a	0.53 ± 0.08^a	0.61 ± 0.05^a	0.10 ± 0.03^a	0.05 ± 0.04^a

Mean valuess carrying same letters are significantly identical.