NREL analytical procedure reported by Sluiter et al. (2011). The cellulose (Cel) and hemicellulose (Hem) mass composition were obtained using the equations reported by Tan et al. (2013), correlating the concentration of glucose (Gluc), xylose (Xyl) and arabinose (Arab), acquired from High-Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC), in a Shimadzu Chromatograph equipped with an Aminex HPX-87H column, working in a furnace at 60 C. Mobile phase was sulfuric acid (5 mM) at rate of 6 ml min1 with an IR detector