Abstract
Understanding the biochemical heterogeneity of plant tissue linked to crop straw anatomy is attractive to plant researchers and researchers in the field of biomass refinery. This study provides an in situ analysis and semiquantitative visualization of major components distribution in internodal transverse sections of wheat straw based on Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) microspectroscopic imaging, with a fast non-negativity-constrained least squares (fast NNLS) fitting. This paper investigates changes in biochemical components of tissue during stages of elongation, booting, heading, flowering, grain-filling, milk-ripening, dough, and full-ripening. Visualization analysis was carried out with reference spectra for five components (microcrystalline cellulose, xylan, lignin, pectin, and starch) of wheat straw. Our result showed that (a) the cellulose and lignin distribution is consistent with that from tissue-dyeing with safranin O-fast green and (b) the distribution of cellulose, lignin, and starch is consistent with chemical images for characteristic wavelength at 1432, 1507, and 987 cm-1, respectively, showing no interference from the other components analyzed. With the validation from biochemical images using characteristic wavelength and tissue-dyeing techniques, further semiquantitative analysis in local tissues based on fast NNLS was carried out, and the result showed that (a) the contents of cellulose in various tissues are very different, with most in parenchyma tissue and least in the epidermis and (b) during plant development, the fluctuation of each component in tissues follows nearly the same trend, especially within vascular bundles and parenchyma tissue. Thus, FTIR microspectroscopic imaging combined with suitable chemometric methods can be successfully applied to study chemical distributions within the internodes transverse sections of wheat straw, providing semiquantitative chemical information.
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