For the analysis of cellulose organization in leaves of M. giganteus and maize plants, the cell wall was isolated from frieze-dried leaves and purified from starch. The mid-infrared spectra were collected using Fourier transform infrared spectrometer (FTIR) Nicolet iZ 10 module (Thermo Fisher Scientific) and the ATR accessory equipped with a diamond crystal. Interferograms (256) were gathered at the resolution of 4 cm−1 and co-added within the wavelength range between 4000 and 400 cm−1 using OMNIC (v. 8.1, Thermo Fisher Scientific) software. The spectra were normalised to the unit area (1800–900 cm−1) after the baseline correction and processed for analysis using the ChemoSpec (Hanson 2017 (link)) and the hyperSpecc (Beleites and Sergo 2018 (link)) packages in the R (R Core Team 2018 (link)).
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