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hemicellulose

Term · Agriculture and food · MLC-T-AGR-003117

A celluloselike material (in wood) that is easily decomposable as by dilute acid, yielding several different simple sugars.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-AGR-003117
FieldAgriculture and food
SubjectFields of Study
ReferencesForest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory; NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary
See alsopolysaccharides; cell walls; cellulosic wastes; neutral detergent fiber; lignin; xylan; mannans
TranslationsSpanish: hemicelulosa
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-AGR-003117",
  "term": "hemicellulose",
  "field": "Agriculture and food",
  "definition": "A celluloselike material (in wood) that is easily decomposable as by dilute acid, yielding several different simple sugars.",
  "subject": "Fields of Study",
  "see_also": [
    "polysaccharides",
    "cell walls",
    "cellulosic wastes",
    "neutral detergent fiber",
    "lignin",
    "xylan",
    "mannans"
  ],
  "references": [
    "Forest Products Laboratory. 2010. Wood handbook - Wood as an engineering material. Gen. Tech. Rep. FPL-GTR-190. Madison, WI: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory",
    "NAL Agricultural Thesaurus and Glossary"
  ],
  "translations": {
    "es": "hemicelulosa"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/agriculture/hemicellulose/"
}

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