supported by the Science and Technology Development Fund(STDF)project(no.44049)and TICAD7 scholarship from the Egyptian and Japanese governments.We are also grateful to Professor Hiromi Nakanishi from the University of Tokyo,for the analyses with the PCR and TOYOBO for the sequencing.
Retting has been employed to extract natural fibers from agricultural wastes as a biological and cost-effective approach for centuries.With its global abundance,banana pseudo-stem is a promising agro-waste for lignoce...
Current environmental and eco-design issues require the use of environmentally friendly materials. These make up a large share of the building materials market. Natural fibers are already used in various types of mate...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 31270534, 31770538);the National Natural Science Youth Foundation of China (No. 31300355);the Post-Doctorate Foundation of Heilongjiang Province (No. LBH-Z15214)
This study demonstrated that Bacillus licheniformis HDYM-03 and Bacillus megaterium HDYM-09, isolated from a liquid sample of fl ax retting pool, were able to produce pectinolytic enzymes using polysaccharides as subs...
Leaves from greenhouse-grown Yucca plants were harvested and retted by microbial and chemical methods respectively.The dimensions and tensile strengths of the two sets of products were compared.While the fibers obtain...
The performance of UASB (Up-flow Anaerobic Sludge Blanket) reactor was investigated in the present study for treatment of flax retting wastewater. Batch and continuous experiments on a pilot scale were designed. The i...
The upper and lower portions of Musa sapientum pseudo-stem sheaths were exposed in four types of treatments: pectin decomposing bacteria, magnesium oxide (MgO), both pectin decomposing bacteria and MgO and control....
Programfor Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Teamin University,China( No .IRT0654);Major State Basic Research Development Program,China ( No .2008CB617506);Analysis and Test Foundation of Zhejiang Province,China ( No .2007F70040)
Cultivable bacteria were isolated from seawater-based retting treatment of hemp, in which three of purified strains (SW- 1, SW- 2, and S-SW1) produced relatively high levels of pectinase activities, and also produced ...
Under the auspices of Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No. KZCX1-SW-12-I);Pre-research Project of Major Basic Program of Ministry of Science and Technology (No. 2004CCA02900)
To study the influence of human activity on natural lake, chironomid fauna change in the 700-560cm lake sediment in Quidenham Mere of England associated with chironomid inferred TP presented that the lake experienced ...
The experimental results showed that the duration of microbial retting processing of kenaf fibers by using aerobic microbe was four times shorter than that by using anaerobic microbe. The residual gum percentage,break...