Evaluating Polymers Interplay to Investigate Lignocellulose Recalcitrance Amandine Leroy INRAE UR BIA 44316 Nantes; Université de Reims CHampagne-Ardenne, INRAE, FARE, UMR A614 51097 Reims Xavier Falourd INRAE UR BIA 44316 Nantes Loïc Foucat INRAE UR BIA 44316 Nantes Valérie Méchin INRAE Institut Jean-Pierre-Bourgin 78026 Versailles Fabienne Guillon (  fabienne.guillon@inrae.fr ) INRAE UR BIA 44316 Nantes https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7925-3104 Gabriel Paës Universite de Reims Champagne-Ardenne, INRAE, FARE, UMR A614 Research Article Keywords: Biomass recalcitrance, molecular and structural factors, hot water pretreatment (HWP), maize stem, NMR analysis Posted Date: May 6th, 2021 DOI: https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-452185/v1 License:   This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Read Full License Version of Record: A version of this preprint was published at Biotechnology for Biofuels on July 31st, 2021. See the published version at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13068-021-02015-8.