Can anyone suggest me some chemical techniques to quantify lignocellulosic components in a plant biomass without having to use HPLC?

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Meng Fei

Klason method.

Chinnusamy Vijayanand

See if this could serve the purpose for lignin, cellulose estimation.

Pema Jamtsho

Thank you for your suggestions

María Cristina Area

You can use Tappi standards for extractives and lignin:

http://www.tappi.org/content/sarg/t204.pdf

http://www.tappi.org/content/SARG/T222.pdf

Cellulose by the Seifert method and hemicelluloses by difference.

Lorena Pedraza

Please see the attachment

Lorenza... I tried this method and thanks