Claim · model-written summary
Cross-sectional data provide the only true measure of cotton fiber wall thickness.
- Taxon
- Cotton
Gossypium hirsutumt0 - Outcome
- wall thicknesse0
- Qualifier
- fiber alignment is criticale0
- Comparator
- cross-sectional datae0
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Organisms pictured · Representative pictures of the matched species, not figures from the paper.

Verbatim
e0“The only true measure of wall thickness is from cross-sectional data, and fiber alignment is critical”
t0“Cotton Fiber”
Title
Applying Microscopy to the Development of a Reference Method for Cotton Fiber Maturity
Eileen K. Boylston; Devron P. Thibodeaux; Janice P. Evans Textile Research Journal 1993. doi:10.1177/004051759306300203
Other claims from this paper (4)
- Method / resource Maximum longitudinal projections agree with cross-sectional measurements of cotton fibers.
- Method / resource Minimum longitudinal projections do not agree with cross-sectional measurements.
- Method / resource Fiber twisting and folding make minimum width projections inaccurate.
- Recommendation The authors recommend centrally sectioning combed parallel fiber bundles to reduce sampling errors from fiber taper.