Arabinoxylan is a hemicellulose found in both the primary and secondary cell walls of plants, including woods and cereal grains, consisting of copolymers of two pentose sugars: arabinose and xylose.
Arabinoxylan chains contain a large number of 1,4-linked xylose units. Many xylose units are substituted with 2, 3 or 2,3-linked arabinose residues.
Arabinoxylans chiefly serve a structural role in the plant cells. They are also the reservoirs of large amounts of ferulic acid and other phenolic acids ...
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