Structure and Utilization of Cell Walls of Normal and Brown Midrib Mutant Sorghum X Sudangrass Hybrids

In the initial phase of this research, the feasibility of utilizing high resolution gas chromatographic technology to separate and quantify underivatized phenolic monomers was studied. Underivatized phenolic monomers commonly isolated from plant cell walls were separated and quantified on a phenylmentyl capillary column. Analysis of alkali-labile phenolics, which included vanillin and the cis and trans isomers of p-coumaric and ferulic acids, required less than 15 minutes. High resolution gas chromatography, utilizing a phenylmethyl-fused silica column, was found to provide a relatively low cost, rapid and sensitive system for the separation and quantitative analysis of lignin derived phenolic monomers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Agronomy

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2014

Author dc:creator

• Fritz, John Otto

• Agriculture, Agronomy

Identifier

(UMI)AAI8823130

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/71651