Hemicellulose description

Xylan-based polymers show no convincing evidence for molecular interaction with, or cross-linking of, cellulose under the high dilution fermentation conditions. Whether this is also true in the less dilute cell wall environment remains to be determined. Description of hemicellulose polymers as glucan-binding may therefore not always be accurate. 

The term lignocellulose, often used for description of plant materials, does not properly describe their main components. Besides cellulose and lignin, the third main component, as indicated above, is hemicellulose, or, more correctly, hemicel-lulosics. The plural form here reflects a set of various heteropolymeric saccharides, the so-called matrix plant polysaccharides. These hemicellulosics mainly form... 

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