Hesperaloe funifera was characterized in terms of its contents of holocellulose, α-cellulose, and lignin (74.1, 52.3, and 7.9%, respectively). Also, an experimental factor design was used to examine the influence of operational variables in the diethanolamine pulping of this material (viz. diethanolamine concentration (50-80%), cooking temperature (155-185 oC), and time (30-90 minutes)) on the ...

The Salix genus includes many species with various uses: wood production, biomass, animal feed, source of salicylic acid, land reclamation, biofuel, a.o. In order to establish a collection potential genitors, resistance genes stressors, 39 accessions were collected in 2015 from Banat and Oltenia, Romania. This paper presents an evaluation 20 accessions, belonging 7 species, polluted or degraded...

Abstract Themeda and Heteropogon are closely related grass genera frequently dominant in tropical C4 grasslands. Relationships between them poorly resolved, impeding ecological study, especially of T. triandra with a broad distribution from Africa to East Asia, H. contortus pantropical distribution. Our analyses plastome nuclear genomes comprehensive sampling demonstrate that neither genus is m...

Within the framework of a taxonomic revision subfamily Urgineoideae based on morphological, genetic and phytogeographic data covering numerous samples from its whole range distribution, we here describe new genus species Pella se Berge in northwestern South Africa. Triandra gen. nov. is easily characterized by absence stamens associated with outer tepal whorl, therefore having only three per fl...