BACKGROUND Cotton fiber, a natural fiber widely used in the textile industry, is differentiated from single cell of ovule epidermis. A large number of genes are believed to be involved in fiber formation, but so far only a few fiber genes have been isolated and functionally characterized in this developmental process. The Kinesin13 subfamily was found to play key roles during cell division and ...

We investigated colour discrimination and learning in adult males of the nocturnal cotton bollworm moth, Helicoverpa armigera, under a dim light condition. The naive moths preferred blue and discriminated the innately preferred blue from several shades of grey, indicating that the moths have colour vision. After being trained for 2 days to take nectar at a yellow disc, an innately non-preferred...

in the present study, development of new asbestos-free brake pad using lingo-cellulosic fibers and nano aluminum oxide particles was investigated. variable factors were the type of lignocellulosic materials (jute, bagass and rice husk) and the size of aluminum particles (nano and micron). these newly formulated brake pads have been tested under the grey cast iron disc. friction coefficient and ...

Abstract Background Cotton stem trichomes and seed fibers are each single celled structures formed by protrusions of epidermal cells, were found sharing the overlapping molecular mechanism. Compared with fibers, cotton more easily observed, but mechanisms underlying their development still poorly understood. Results In this study, Gossypium hirsutum ( Gh ) G. barbadense Gb) to differ greatly in...

Cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fibers are single-celled seed coat hairs that elongate up to 2mm per day during a phase of rapid growth. Recent evidence suggests this growth is orchestrated by a series of events which includes temporary closure of plasmodesmata.

This study focuses on the development and characterization of pigeon pea stalk/cotton fibers mixed with a blend ratio 50/50, 70/30, 30/70, 60/40, 100/0 waste cotton 0/100 stalk composites are equipped compression molding system. The entire composite samples tested for acoustics, thermal physical parameters as per American Society Testing Materials standard (ASTM). sound absorption coefficients ...

This study aims to investigate the utilization of recycled textile waste fiber (RTWF) as reinforcement in cementitious lightweight composite mortars. The effect RTWF percentage on mortar (CLCM) consistency, plastic and dry set density, splitting tensile compressive strength was measured. In particular, structural mechanical properties hardened examined detail. Mohr-Coulomb Failure Criterion use...

Cotton is the most important textile crop as a result of its long cellulose-enriched mature fibers. These single-celled hairs initiate at anthesis from the ovule epidermis. To date, genes proven to be critical for fiber development have not been identified. Here, we examined the role of the sucrose synthase gene (Sus) in cotton fiber and seed by transforming cotton with Sus suppression construc...