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Product Name：Lignin
Molecular format：C3H8NO5P
CAS No：9005-53-2
Product molecular structure：
Chemical Properties:
The term "lignin" is derived from the Latin lignum for wood, and woody plants or parts of plants contain large quantities of this substance. lignin is an irnportant skeletal component of secondary cell walls and is thus not found in young plants or parts of plants that are still growing. It is lignin that provides the hardness and rigidity of tree trunks and the sterns of perennial plants. In the cell wall, lignin is bound to other components, notably hemicelluloses. The lignin-cellulose-hemicellulose complex has economic irnportance in the production of paper from wood. The strong bonds linking cellulosic material to lignin render the former inaccessible to enzyme hydrolysis, and thus lignin has a direct influence on the digestibility, and hence the nutritive value, of herbage plants to grazing animals. In herbage plants, lignin is also bonded to cell wall protein.
Lignification of plants affects the palatability of fruits and vegetables. Thus, the unpleasant "stone cells" in pears are due to lignification, and many root and stern crops, such as carrots, beetroot, celery or asparagus, when old become inedible through lignification.