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Vitata fibres had a mean fibre length of 2.76±0.73 mm.
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Bambusa vulgarisVerbatim
t0“Bambusa vulgaris”
e0“Culms of the two cultivars of bamboo were collected from the Forestry Research Institute of Nigeria at Jericho in Ibadan, Nigeria”
e1“We evaluated the fibre characteristics of two cultivars of Bambusa vulgaris”
e2“The mean FL of the two cultivars (‘Vitata’ and ‘Wamin’) were 2.76±0.73 and 2.46±0.75 mm”
Title
Adedeji Robert Ojo; Ifedayo Micheal Adeniyi Advances in Bamboo Science 2026. doi:10.1016/j.bamboo.2026.100251
Other claims from this paper (9)
- Observation Wamin fibres had a mean fibre length of 2.46±0.75 mm.
- Observation Vitata fibres had a fibre diameter of 17.77±4.87 µm.
- Observation Wamin fibres had a fibre diameter of 13.93±2.15 µm.
- Observation Vitata fibres had a lumen width of 17.77±4.87 µm.
- Observation Wamin fibres had a lumen width of 13.93±2.15 µm.
- Observation Vitata fibres had a cell wall thickness of 4.57±1.36 µm.
- Observation Wamin fibres had a cell wall thickness of 2.34±0.68 µm.
- Association Fibre length has a strong and positive relationship with every other fibre characteristic.
- Recommendation The fibres of the two cultivars are suitable for paper production given their fibre lengths.