The use of a cotton pellet as a spacer or as a medication carrier in the tooth pulp chamber between root canal therapy appointments is an accepted and common practice. Retaining the pellet in the proper position within the tooth is very important. Cellulose fibers from disposable drapes, gowns and cotton can cause foreign body reactions if left in a surgical wound." In addition, cellulose fiber...

Cotton fibers are natural plant products, and their end-use qualities depend on their stages of development. In general, the quantity of cellulose in cotton fibers increases rapidly, thus it leads to compositional, structural and physical attribute variations among the fibers with shorter and longer growth periods. This article discusses recent progress in applying the Fourier transform infrare...

In the foreign fibers cleaning process, pseudo-foreign fibers are often mistaken for foreign fibers, this result not only seriously affects the detecting precision of foreign fibers cleaning machine, but also doubles the time of cleaning up lint. As for false identification problem of pseudo-foreign fibers in cotton, this paper proposes a new approach for fast segmentation of pseudo-foreign fib...

With the focus that short fiber content in cotton receives from textile mills, there is a need to improve the precision and accuracy of this measurement. In order to do this, it is necessary to understand the opportunities that exist to improve the measurement of short fiber. Since the Advanced Fiber Information System (AFIS) is the most widely recognized method for determining short fiber cont...

Plant microRNAs (miRNAs) have been shown to play essential roles in the regulation of gene expression. In this study, small RNA deep sequencing was applied to explore novel miRNAs expressed in elongating cotton fibers. A total of 46 novel and 96 known miRNAs, primarily derived from the corresponding specific loci in genome of Gossypium arboreum, were identified. 64 miRNAs were shown to be diffe...

The demand for natural fibers has always been high due to their unique characteristics like strength, lightweight, availability, bio-degradability, etc. In every phase of life, from clothing technical textiles, are used. Water absorption is considered really important in many aspects, e.g., Sportech, Medtech, Geotech, This work analyses water raw and alkali-treated cotton, arecas, pineapple lea...

Escherichia coli (E. coli) was used to activate hydrolysis reaction along with biodegradation in natural and synthetic fibers to identify possibilities as alternative substitutes for textile wastes using chemical solutions and enzymes. To confirm the reaction between the bacterial infections of E. coli and the excessively abundant interstitial spaces of the fibers, various types of natural and ...

A novel kinesin, GhKCH1, has been identified from cotton (Gossypium hirsutum) fibers. GhKCH1 has a centrally located kinesin catalytic core, a signature neck peptide of minus end-directed kinesins, and a unique calponin homology (CH) domain at its N terminus. GhKCH1 and other CH domain-containing kinesins (KCHs) belong to a distinct branch of the minus end-directed kinesin subfamily. To date th...

Dihydroflavanol 4-reductase (DFR) is a key later enzyme involved in two polyphenols' (anthocyanins and proanthocyanidins (PAs)) biosynthesis, however it is not characterized in cotton yet. In present reports, a DFR cDNA homolog (designated as GhDFR1) was cloned from developing fibers of upland cotton. Silencing GhDFR1 in cotton by virus-induced gene silencing led to significant decrease in accu...

For the first time, it is shown that water medium allows dissolved methylmethacrylate monomer to penetrate water-swollen natural nanoporous structure of never-dried cotton fibers (biological cellulose fibers). Unique cellulose copolymer nanocomposites are obtained by green nanotechnology process (solvent is water -ideal green solventand reaction conducted at 25oC). It was found that after only ...