UV Absorption Microspectrophotometry and Histochemistry of Flax and Kenaf

1998 ◽  
Vol 4 (S2) ◽  
pp. 846-847
Author(s):  
D.E. Akin
Keyword(s):  
Microbial Degradation ◽  
Linum Usitatissimum ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Hibiscus Cannabinus ◽  
Fiber Cell ◽  
The Other ◽  
Uv Absorption ◽  
Bast Fibers ◽  
Histochemical Tests

Flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) and kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus L.) are the sources of fibers used for textiles and other industrial applications. Both flax and kenaf produce fibers in the bast region (Fig. 1, 2) which must be separated from other tissues by retting. Although both flax and kenaf are bast fibers, their properties are vastly different. UV absorption microspectrophotometry and histochemistry elucidate their chemistry and structure related to enzymatic retting.Aromatics such as lignins are produced by plants for protection and strength, but their presence inhibits microbial degradation, which is necessary in retting. Histochemical tests indicated variations in the site and type of aromatics within these two plants (1,2). In flax, acid phloroglucinol but not chlorine-sulfite gave positive reactions occasionally in fiber cell walls in the bast. The other cell walls in the bast did not contain aromatics by these tests, although aromatics occurred in the cuticle.

scholarly journals Involvement of CesA4, CesA7-A/B and CesA8-A/B in secondary wall formation in Populus trichocarpa wood

2019 ◽  
Vol 40 (1) ◽  
pp. 73-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manzar Abbas ◽  
Ilona Peszlen ◽  
Rui Shi ◽  
Hoon Kim ◽  
Rui Katahira ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Solid State ◽  
Mechanical Strength ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Secondary Wall ◽  
Populus Trichocarpa ◽  
Wood Formation ◽  
Fiber Cell ◽  
Modulus Of Rupture ◽  
Cellulose Content ◽  
Wall Formation

Abstract Cellulose synthase A genes (CesAs) are responsible for cellulose biosynthesis in plant cell walls. In this study, functions of secondary wall cellulose synthases PtrCesA4, PtrCesA7-A/B and PtrCesA8-A/B were characterized during wood formation in Populus trichocarpa (Torr. & Gray). CesA RNAi knockdown transgenic plants exhibited stunted growth, narrow leaves, early necrosis, reduced stature, collapsed vessels, thinner fiber cell walls and extended fiber lumen diameters. In the RNAi knockdown transgenics, stems exhibited reduced mechanical strength, with reduced modulus of rupture (MOR) and modulus of elasticity (MOE). The reduced mechanical strength may be due to thinner fiber cell walls. Vessels in the xylem of the transgenics were collapsed, indicating that water transport in xylem may be affected and thus causing early necrosis in leaves. A dramatic decrease in cellulose content was observed in the RNAi knockdown transgenics. Compared with wildtype, the cellulose content was significantly decreased in the PtrCesA4, PtrCesA7 and PtrCesA8 RNAi knockdown transgenics. As a result, lignin and xylem contents were proportionally increased. The wood composition changes were confirmed by solid-state NMR, two-dimensional solution-state NMR and sum-frequency-generation vibration (SFG) analyses. Both solid-state nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and SFG analyses demonstrated that knockdown of PtrCesAs did not affect cellulose crystallinity index. Our results provided the evidence for the involvement of PtrCesA4, PtrCesA7-A/B and PtrCesA8-A/B in secondary cell wall formation in wood and demonstrated the pleiotropic effects of their perturbations on wood formation.

Voluntary intake, digestibility and rate of passage of a hay and a silage fed to horses and to cattle

1995 ◽  
Vol 1995 ◽  
pp. 164-164
Author(s):  
B. McLean ◽  
A. Afzalzadeh ◽  
L. Bates ◽  
R.W. Mayes ◽  
F.D.DeB. Hovell
Keyword(s):  
Sugar Beet ◽  
Microbial Degradation ◽  
Poor Quality ◽  
The Other ◽  
Alternative Strategy ◽  
High Rate ◽  
Beet Pulp ◽  
Voluntary Intake ◽  
Hind Gut ◽  
Adequate Nutrient

It is well established that the intake and digestibility of roughages by ruminants is positively correlated with rate of passage (ARC, 1980), presumably to enable as complete a microbial degradation of the poorer roughages as possible. On the other hand hind gut fermenters such as horses have been thought to have adopted the alternative strategy of using a high rate of passage to ‘cream’ off the rapidly degradable material of poor quality roughages so as to maintain adequate nutrient intakes. Surprisingly, there are remarkably few actual comparisons between ruminants and hindgut fermenters in the literature. Traditionally dried roughages (hay) and cereal and ‘by-product concentrates’ have been used as horse feeds (grains, brans sugar beet pulp). Recently there has been more interest in the use of silages with horses (eg Smoulders and Hobiers, 1988). However the information as to the utilisation of silages by horses is limited.

scholarly journals Emerging Compounds in Mexico: Challenges for Their Identification and Elimination in Wastewater

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Gustavo Ronderos-Lara ◽  
Hugo Saldarriaga-Noreña ◽  
Pedro Guillermo Reyes-Romero ◽  
Luis Alberto Chávez-Almazán ◽  
Josefina Vergara-Sánchez ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Wastewater Treatment ◽  
Wastewater Treatment Plants ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Emerging Pollutants ◽  
The Other ◽  
Personal Hygiene ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
Emerging Compounds ◽  
Concentration Levels

In recent years, the presence of organic pollutants has received great attention due to their effects on public health and biota. Within this set of compounds, a new range of compounds that are characterized by their high persistence and low degradation have been identified, called Emerging Compounds. Emerging pollutants include a wide variety of products for daily use of different structures, domestic and industrial applications, such as: pesticides, industrial and personal hygiene products, hormones, and drugs, most of which are toxic, persistent and bioaccumulative. A characteristic of these types of pollutants is that current wastewater treatment plants are unable to remove them; they are designed to remove organic matter and nutrients in higher concentrations. In Mexico there is little information on the concentration levels of these compounds, due to the lack of public policies aimed at providing resources to institutions and researchers trained to carry out this type of study. On the other hand, the technological infrastructure of the wastewater treatment plants is insufficient for the country’s demand. This situation represents one of the greatest challenges for the authorities responsible for the management of water resources, in the immediate time if it is intended to preserve said resource and therefore take care of the health of the population.

Recent development in kenaf (Hibiscus cannabinus)-based biocomposites and their potential industrial applications: A review

2021 ◽  
pp. 329-368
Author(s):  
M.D. Hazrol ◽  
S.M. Sapuan ◽  
M.Y.M. Zuhri ◽  
E.S. Zainudin ◽  
N.I.A. Wahab ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Hibiscus Cannabinus

scholarly journals FTIR analysis of chemical changes in wood induced by steaming and longitudinal compression

Cellulose ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 6811-6829 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mátyás Báder ◽  
Róbert Németh ◽  
Jakub Sandak ◽  
Anna Sandak
Keyword(s):  
Functional Groups ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Beech Wood ◽  
Industrial Applications ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Longitudinal Compression ◽  
Chemical Mechanisms ◽  
Modification Process ◽  
Physical Chemical ◽  
Detailed Interpretation

Abstract Pleating is an optimal way to increase bendability of wood used in diverse industrial applications. It results in the excessive buckling of cell walls and modifications of constitutive polymers. However, thoughtful understanding of the physical–chemical mechanisms of that modification process is very limited. The main purpose of the present study was to identify changes in functional groups of wood polymers induced by longitudinal compression. Four types of wood samples prepared from beech and sessile oak (untreated, steamed, longitudinally compressed and fixated for 1 min as well as longitudinally compressed and fixated for 18 h) were assessed by infrared spectroscopy. The spectra interpretation revealed that changes can be observed in hydroxyl as well as in carbon–oxygen single and carbon-hydrogen functional groups of polysaccharides and lignin. Beech wood seems to be more susceptible to investigated modification processes as compared to oak. Detailed interpretation of infrared spectra allows identification of changes in the hygroscopicity of wood as well as alterations in the linkage between structural elements in the polymer matrix of wood induced by the applied treatments. Graphic Abstract

Über die quantitative Verteilung der Ascorbinsäure innerhalb der Pflanzenzelle

1964 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 1146-1149 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wolfgang Franke ◽  
Ulrich Heber
Keyword(s):  
Ascorbic Acid ◽  
Acid Content ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Ascorbic Acid Content ◽  
The Other ◽  
Leaf Cell ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Freeze Dried ◽  
High Figure

Leaves, which had been killed in liquid air, were freeze dried and then fractionated by a nonaqueous method. Two fractions were obtained, one consisting of chloroplasts and the other of cytoplasm, vacuolar constituents, cell walls and residual chloroplasts. Calculation of the intracellular distribution of ascorbic acid based on the analysis of the two fractions revealed that 40 to 50% of the total ascorbic acid content of the cells is located within the chloroplasts. Since chloroplasts occupy less than 10% of the total volume of the cells, this high figure is direct evidence of an unequal distribution of ascorbic acid within the leaf cell.

scholarly journals Fiber cell development and fiber yield of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) affected by the seasonal temperature pattern

2015 ◽  
Vol 95 (6) ◽  
pp. 1215-1220 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guang-Hui Du ◽  
Fei-Hu Liu ◽  
Gordon Rowland
Keyword(s):  
Linum Usitatissimum ◽  
Cell Development ◽  
Fiber Cell ◽  
Temperature Pattern ◽  
Seasonal Temperature ◽  
Fiber Flax ◽  
Fiber Cells ◽  
Linum Usitatissimum L ◽  
Fiber Yield ◽  
Favorable Temperature

Du, G.-H., Liu, F.-H. and Rowland, G. 2015. Fiber cell development and fiber yield of flax (Linum usitatissimum L.) affected by the seasonal temperature pattern. Can. J. Plant Sci. 95: 1215–1220. Three fiber flax cultivars ‘Ariane’, ‘Argos’ and ‘Viking’ were cultured in growth chambers under three seasonal temperature patterns (STPs) [parabolic (P), anti-parabolic (AP) and quasi-horizontal (QH) configurations]. The effect of STP was studied on fiber cell development and on fiber yield. The results indicated that, compared with the quasi-horizontal seasonal temperature pattern (QH-STP), the size of fiber cell cavity (SFCC) and fiber content (FC) decreased under parabolic seasonal temperature pattern (P-STP). However, the size of fiber cell (SFC) and SFCC decreased, but the number of fiber cells per bundle (NFCB) increased under anti-parabolic seasonal temperature pattern (AP-STP). Moreover, there was a significant positive correlation between fiber weight (FW) and width of fiber bundle (WFB), also between FC and NFCB. Considering the response of fiber flax cultivars to the different STPs, ‘Ariane’ had smaller SFC and SFCC, thinner thickness of fiber cell wall (TFCW) under AP-STP, and smaller SFCC and thicker TFCW under P-STP than under QH-STP, while ‘Argos’ had smaller SFC and SFCC, and higher NFCB under AP-STP, and smaller SFC under P-STP than under QH-STP. However, STPs had little effect on the fiber cell development of ‘Viking’. All three cultivars had high FC under AP-STP than under P-STP. These observations indicate that the fiber cell development and fiber yield of flax were related to the STP and suggest that AP-STP are the most favorable temperature conditions for fiber flax growth.

A new species and comparative morphology of Vesselowskya (Cunoniaceae)

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew C. Rozefelds ◽  
Richard W. Barnes ◽  
Belinda Pellow
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Cell Walls ◽  
New South ◽  
Comparative Morphology ◽  
Epidermal Cells ◽  
The Other ◽  
Abaxial Surface ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Central Column ◽  
A New Species

The vegetative and reproductive morphology of Vesselowskya Pampanini, southern marara, is described and illustrated in detail. The variation within V. rubifolia (F.Muell.) Pampanini sens. lat. is shown to be greater than has previously been recognised, with the differences identified supporting the recognition of a new segregate species, V. venusta Rozefelds, R.W.Barnes and Pellow sp. nov. Vesselowskya venusta occurs in the Barrington Tops Plateau of New South Wales and differs from V. rubifolia in possessing hairs on the abaxial surface of the sepals and lacking both a prominent distal connective protrusion on the anthers and colleters at the base of the stipules. The two Vesselowskya species are dioecious with a vestigial ovary in staminate flowers and reduced stamens in pistillate flowers. Dioecy is more pronounced in Vesselowskya, than in some Weinmannia species, and in both genera is expressed through reduction in the size of the ovaries in staminate flowers, and stamens in pistillate flowers. Vesselowskya shares with the other genera in the tribe Cunonieae (Pancheria, Weinmannia and Cunonia), a central column in the fruits, and Cunonia-type stipules, but differs from these genera in having valvate aestivation, digitate leaves, craspedodromous secondary venation with secondary veins terminating at a tooth, tuft domatia along the midrib, adaxial epidermal cells with strongly sinuous cell walls and the absence of hydathodes.

Implementing 3D Printer to Produce Parts in Medical Applications

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 188
Author(s):  
Roger Johnson ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
G. H. Massiha
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Applications ◽  
The Other ◽  
Medical Applications ◽  
Full Potential ◽  
3D Printer ◽  
Cnc Machine

<p class="Abstract">The purpose of this project is to show the ability of a 3D printer to produce temporary parts, molds, and jigs for industrial applications. In the industry, it is common for any replacement parts to be milled by a CNC machine or a large inventory of replacement parts to be kept on standby.  This represents an underutilization of company capital.  This is because there should either be a CNC machine delegated to remake the part, while the other machine is down, or have capital dumped into parts that will not be utilized until a part breaks.  A 3D printer can create a temporary part that can take the place of the broken one until another, more permanent, one can be produced or ordered.  Although, if this was the only thing it would be used for it also would be underutilized and not bringing out its full potential.  It can also make jigs in a fraction of the time, and cost in materials, it would take for a CNC machine to mill it from metal.  This increases flexibility of the 3D printer and does not leave it underutilized, thus not being capital that is underutilized.</p>

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