AIM OF THE STUDY Bamboo leaves are used as a component in traditional Chinese medicine for the anti-inflammatory function. Our previous studies have demonstrated that an ethanol/water extract from Phyllostachys edulis ameliorated obesity-associated chronic systemic inflammation in mice, and therefore relieving the symptoms of type 2 diabetes. The aim of this project was to further investigate t...

Bamboos, unlike other grasses, mostly live in association with forests. Two different types of bamboos are recognized: the thick, hard “woody” bamboos, reaching up to 40 m tall, and the softer-stemmed “herbaceous” bamboos, rarely reaching more than 1 m tall. Worldwide, over 1,650 bamboo species are known, and although many people think of bamboos as Asian, 530 species (about one-third of total ...

A strategy for analyzing flavone C-glucosides in the leaves of different species of bamboo was developed. Firstly, the flavone C-glycosides were extracted from the bamboo leaves (51 species in 17 genera) with methanol and chromatographed on silica gel 60 plates in automatic developing chamber (ADC2), and a qualitative survey using simple derivatization steps with the NP reagent was carried out....

Bamboo is a sustainable, lightweight material that is widely used in structural applications. To fully develop micromechanical models for plants, such as bamboo, the mechanical properties of each individual type of tissue are needed. However, separating individual tissues and testing them mechanically is challenging. Here, we report an alternative approach in which micro X-ray computed tomograp...

The objective of this work was to study Cr(VI) sorption/desorption on two by-products from the wood industry: pine sawdust and oak wood ash. The retention/release experiments were carried out using standard batch-type trials. In the sorption-phase experiments, pine sawdust showed 23% sorption when a concentration of 100 mg Cr(VI)ŸL-1 was added, whereas sorption on oak wood ash was 17%. In the d...

The impacts of county-level forestry, specifically bamboo, reforms on the local economy are examined. In the case of fresh bamboo shoots, by the end of the first phase of land reforms (1987), disincentives associated with the sharing of collective outputs, were eliminated; and allocation of labor and capital inputs reached near optimal. Industrial and market reforms created price incentives, an...

Abstract Due to its widespread consumption, paracetamol (PCT) has emerged as one of the leading contaminants that pollute water. Herein, a PCT removal 99.6% was achieved using chemically activated carbon (CAC), derived from bamboo sawdust KOH/FeCl3 an activating agent, at optimal conditions (20 mg/L), CAC (0.5 g/L), contact time (90 min), and pH (8). Kinetic study revealed adsorption process fo...

bamboo-structured carbon nanotubes are grown on co-mo/mcm-41 catalyst in the temperature range of 873-973 k by thermal chemical vapor deposition of acetylene. this study shows that the purified carbon nanotubes have open tips and the metals of the catalyst are not encapsulated. thus, the bamboo-structure seems to grow from the base. pore size distribution of the product is quite narrow and is i...