Research Article

Using Commercial Enzymes to Produce Cellulose Nanofibers from Soybean Straw

Table 5

Concentration of reducing sugars (g/100 g of SS) in the solution obtained after enzymatic hydrolysis of soybean residue using the commercial enzymatic cocktail Optimash VR (DuPont, USA) for 42 h (pH = 4.0 and °C).

Sugar solution from CN productionReducing sugars (%)
(g of glucose/100 g of SS)

SS113.3 ± 1.0
SS229.0 ± 0.9
SS311.2 ± 0.6
SS430.4 ± 1.1

Values are expressed as mean ± standard deviation. Different letters, a and b, in the same column indicate significant differences () among the samples.