Fiber Plants: Biology, Biotechnology and Applications

Book Title: Fiber plants: Biology, Biotechnology and Applications

Table of content

Part I. Biology and Resources

 1.    Natural Cellulose Fiber from Mendong Grass (Fimbristylis globulosa)

Heru Suryanto¹

Uun Yanuhar²

¹Department of Mechanical Engineering, UniversitasNegeri Malang, Jl. Semarang 6 Malang, JawaTimur, Indonesia. E-mail:

suryantoheru@yahoo.com

²Laboratory of Biotechnology, Department of Fisheries and Marine Science, UniversitasBrawijaya, Jl. Veteran Malang, Indonesia. E-mail: uunyanuhar@yohoo.com.

 

2.    Linen and its wet processing

Arun Kumar Patra. The Technological Institute of Textile & Sciences, Bhiwani , India

 

3. Cyperus canus -A traditional source of fiber, its uses, products and cultural significances among ethnic communities of Central America

Edgar Mó^1,2, William Cetzal-Ix^3*, Eliana Noguera-Savelli⁴&SaikatKumar Basu⁵

¹ Orquideario Agronomía-CUNOR-USAC, Centro Universitario del Norte, Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala; ² Orquigonia, Centro de Rescate y Conservación de Orquídeas, Cobán, Alta Verapaz, Guatemala.

3 Herbario CICY, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A. C. (CICY), Calle 43. No. 130. Col. Chuburná de Hidalgo, Mérida 97200, Yucatán, México; ⁴ BIODIPROS AC, Biodiversidad y Producción Sustentable, Mérida, Yucatán, México; ⁵ Department of BiologicalSciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada; *e-mail: rolito22@hotmail.com

 

Part II. Biotechnology and Genomics

4.        Importance of transgenic cottons on a global scale

Rajasekaran, USDA, ARS, SRRC New Orleans, LA and D. Anderson, Dow AgroSciences, Indianapolis, IN  (Rajah.Rajasekaran@ARS.USDA.GOV)

 

5.       Cotton fibre biotechnology: Transgenic manipulation of elongation and cell wall thickening

Michael R. Stiff¹, J. Rich Tuttle¹, Benjamin P. Graham², Candace H. Haigler^1,2

¹Department of Crop Science, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, USA

²Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, 27695, USA

 

6.       Regeneration and Somaclonal Variation and mutant in bamboo-Dendrocalamus farinosus

Shang-lian Hu^1,2*  Cao Ying^1,2

Lab of Plant Cell Engineering , Southwest University of Science and Technology;

Engineering Research Center for Biomass Resource Utilization and Modification of Sichuan Province,

Mian Yang, Sichuan Province 621010,China

*Corresponding author ( Tel.: +86 816 6089526,  Fax: +86 816 6089526,  E-mail address: hushanglian@126.com)

 

7.       Plant cell and organ culture approach for exploring functional cell differentiation in Phyllostachys and Bambusabamboo

Shinjiro Ogita ^a,b, Takao Kishimoto ^a, Taiji Nomura ^a, Yasuo Kato ^a

^a Biotechnology Research Center and Department of Biotechnology, Toyama Prefectural University, Imizu, Toyama, 939-0398, Japan

^b Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, Department of Life Sciences, Prefectural University of Hiroshima 727-0023 Shoubara, Japan

ogita@pu-hiroshima.ac.jp

 

8.       Cotton In Vitro Regeneration

H. F. Sakhanokho, USDA-ARS, Thad Cochran Southern Horticultural Laboratory, 810 Hwy 26 West, Poplarville, MS 39470

K. Rajasekaran

USDA-ARS-SRRC, 1100 Robert E. Lee Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70124

(Rajah.Rajasekaran@ARS.USDA.GOV)

 

9.       Jute Genomics: Emerging Resources and Tools for Molecular Breeding

Debabrata Sarkar¹· Pratik Satya¹ ·Pran Gobinda Karmakar¹ · Nagendra Kumar Singh²

¹Biotechnology Unit, Division of Crop Improvement, ICAR-Central Research Institute for Jute and Allied Fibres (CRIJAF), Barrackpore, Kolkata 700 120, West Bengal, India

²ICAR-National Research Centre on Plant Biotechnology (NRCPB), Pusa, New Delhi 110 012, India

 

10.  

Jute, the versatile golden fiber: Importance, impediments and improvements

Pushyami Bharadwaj J, Department of Plant Sciences, University of Hyderabad, Hyderabad, India 500046.

 

11.

   Transgenic Cotton for Agronomical Useful Traits

Chandrakanth Emani, Department of Biology, Western Kentucky University-Owensboro, 4821 New Hartford Road Owensboro, KY 42303, USA              

 

Part III. Application technology

 

12. BANANA FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE

N. Venkateshwaran

 

13.   Modification of cellulose acetate films

Francisco Rodríguez, María J. Galotto, Abel Guarda, Julio Bruna

Food Packaging Laboratory.Department of Food Science and Technology, Faculty of Technology.Center for the Development of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CEDENNA).University of Santiago de Chile.Obispo Manuel Umaña 050. Estación Central.

Santiago, Chile. 9170201.

 

14.   Physicochemical, morphological and anatomical properties of plant fibres for pulping and papermaking

Kumar Anupam, Priti Shivhare Lal, Vimlesh Bist

Physical Chemistry, Pulping and Bleaching Division, Central Pulp and Paper Research Institute, Himmat Nagar, Saharanpur 247001, Uttarpradesh, India

 

15.

   Sanseviera zeylanica (L.) Willd and its potential as a new natural source fiber: A case study from the Yucatan Peninsula, Mexico

Rodrigo Duno de Stefano¹, William Cetzal-Ix^1*& Saikat Kumar Basu²

¹

Herbario CICY, Centro de Investigación Científica de Yucatán, A. C. (CICY); 2 Department of Biological Sciences, University of Lethbridge, Lethbridge, AB Canada T1K 3M4;*e-mail: rolito22@hotmail.com.