Retting is the most limiting process of high-quality cellulosic kenaf bast fiber production which facilitating separation useable from plants' cell wall matrix. Existing traditional water retting approach confronts ineptitude and eutrophication related complications. Aiming to enhance bio-retting process, sixty-seven alkalophilic bacterial colonies were isolated paddy land soil sediments water....

Naturally abundant materials play a crucial role in the development of sustainable electrochemical energy storage (EES) devices including batteries and supercapacitors (SCs). This is due to limited available resources with regards materials, environmental pollution produced by toxic utilized conventional EESs. In current review, field natural bast fibres (jute, flax, hemp kenaf) based EES perfo...

Ovarian cancer is one of the most lethal gynecological cancers in the United States. NCI estimates ~21,880 new cases with ~13,850 deaths in 2011 (http://www.cancer.gov/ cancertopics/ types/ovariancancer). Unfortunately, the majority of these cases are only discovered at advanced stages (stage III or IV) due to the cancer’s asymptomatic nature which has an overall survival rate between 5-25% (Ba...

reconstituted basement membrane matrix is not correlated to the malignant metastatic cell phenotype. Cancer Res. 51:405-414. 4.Price, J.T. and E.W. Thompson. 1999. Models for studying cellular invasion of basement membranes. Methods Mol. Biol. 129:231-249. 5.Rodriguez, G.C., C. Haisley, J. Hurteau, T.L. Moser, R. Whitaker, R.C. J. Bast, and M.S. Stack. 2001. Regulation of invasion of epithelial...

The strain T1BF was isolated from the old bast tissue of Taxus yunnanensis and determined to be a member of Talaromyces. The extracts from the solid fermentation of Talaromycessp. T1BF were purified and obtained three azaphilones, including a new one. They were identified on the basis of spectral data as 6alpha-hydroxy-7beta-methyl-8-oxo-3-((E)- prop-1-en-1-yl)-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-1H-isochromen-...

In this research, a method for producing gum tragacanth (GT) fibers is presented. Ribbon type GT of Astragalus Gummifer species were obtained from local production lands. The gum was treated with alkali to increase its process ability, and allowed to stand for a period of time to reach the proper viscosity and/or to "ripen". Samples with different ripening times were prepared and their viscosit...