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Effects of Different Stem Skin and Marrow Root Mesh Sizes in Sweet Sorghum Bagasse on the Release of Sugar in Hydrolysis

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This study investigates the effects of different particle sizes of sweet sorghum stem skin and marrow on pretreatment and hydrolysis. The optimal pretreatment concentration was 3.5% acid and 6.5% alkali. The optimal pretreatment temperature was 35 °C. Solid recovery gradually decreased with an increase in mesh and achieved 41.05% at 100 mesh under selected pretreatment conditions. The surface of the pretreated stem skin and marrow became rugged and pores were emerged. In addition, pore size was larger compared with untreated specimens. Pore diameter Dv (d) could reach 57.4 μm. For enzymatic hydrolysis, 20 units/g cellulase and 40 units/g β-glucosidase were adopted, and ten types of monosaccharide were obtained, including glucose, xylose, arabinose, galactose, mannose, ribose, fucose, gluconic acid, gluconic acid and rhamnose. The total monosaccharide content for stem skin and marrow were reached 1381.99 ± 0.7 mg/kg at 100 mesh with a two-stage (alkali–acid) pretreatment.

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This work was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11105193), the CAS Light of West China talent training Program (Ke-Fa-Ren-Zi [2015] No. 77), National Science and Technology Major Project (2017ZX09101002-003-001) and the Natural Science Foundation of Gansu Provincial Sci. and Tech. Department (Grant No. 1506RJZA293).

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    Ting-Ting Jiang, Xiang Zhou, Yan Liang, Ai-Lian Jiang & Jian-Ping Liang

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    Ting-Ting Jiang & Ai-Lian Jiang

  3. Lanzhou University, 222 South Tianshui Road, Lanzhou, 730000, Gansu, People’s Republic of China

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T.T.J. and X.Z. conceived, designed and supervised the study. T.T.J., X.Z., Y.L., A.L.J. and J.P.L. performed the experiments. T.T.J., X.Z., Y.L. and A.L.J. analysed the data. T.T.J., Y.L. and A.L.J. contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools. T.T.J. wrote the paper. X.Z. critically revised the manuscript. X.Z. was involved in final approval of the version to be published.

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Jiang, TT., Zhou, X., Liang, Y. et al. Effects of Different Stem Skin and Marrow Root Mesh Sizes in Sweet Sorghum Bagasse on the Release of Sugar in Hydrolysis. Sugar Tech 21, 421–436 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12355-018-0664-5

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