Their cell walls are composed of alginate.
This assay measures cell wall recalcitrance by quantifying the amount of monomeric sugars released during cell wall digestion [ 1- 5].
Cell wall thickness was measured directly from the CLSM images by a procedure adapted from those used previously to measure cell wall thickness in wood [ 16, 17].
To examine the effects of the artificial microRNA constructs on cell wall structure, we measured cell wall thickness in the toluidine blue-stained sections.
Another method to assess cell wall composition is to measure the intensity with which antibodies that recognize specific epitopes within cell wall polymers bind to cell wall samples.
Nanoindentation is a method used for measuring the mechanical properties of thin films and surface layers, which is believed to be applicable for measuring the cell wall mechanical properties of Al-foams as well.
In this paper, the nanoindentation technique has been used for measuring the cell wall mechanical properties of Al Si Cu Mg alloy foams.
The values for insoluble and soluble fractions were obtained by the Englyst procedure, which aims to measure plant cell wall non-starch polysaccharides as the sum of the chemically identified constituent sugars; the procedure does not measure lignin (Englyst et al, 1994).
