Engineering flax and hemp for an alternative to cotton

Ebskamp, M.J.M.

doi:10.1016/s0167-7799(02)01953-4

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“…Recent developments in identifying genes involved in the synthesis of the wall components will help to tackle the specific complexity of the secondary wall formation in flax fibres [14]. Flax is a good genetic system [8]; its genome is relatively small [1.5 pg DNA/2C nucleus] and its time generation relatively short [around 100 days].…”

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Building flax fibres: more than one brick in the walls

Morvan

Andème‐Onzighi

Girault

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Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

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“…Flax self pollinates and is transformable by Agrobacterium [33,39]. Flax cDNA libraries are being described [14]. With the complete sequencing of Arabidopsis genes, the application of gene technologies will certainly expand opportunities to evaluate flax plants more efficiently in the future.…”

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Building flax fibres: more than one brick in the walls

Morvan

Andème‐Onzighi

Girault

et al. 2003

Plant Physiology and Biochemistry

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149

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“…Flax was one of the most widely used textile plant fibers, particularly in the Mediterranean, Eastern and North Europe. It was eventually replaced by cotton in the late 1600's (Ebakomp, 2002). Flax products are used either alone or in conjunction with synthetic fibers in various types of apparel.…”

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Cold Pad Batch Dyeing of Linen Fabric With Some Reactive Dyes

2010

Al-Azhar Bulletin of Science

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Unmodified linen fabrics were cationized by reaction with two different commercial cationizing agents, CHTAC (3-chloro-2-hydroxypropyltrimethyl ammonium chloride) and PAQAC (polyaminochlorohydrin quaternary ammonium salt with epoxide functionality). The uncationized and cationized linen fabrics were dyed with four different reactive dyes with the cold pad batch dyeing method. The fastness properties of the dyed, cationized linen fabrics were evaluated.

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“…1 alternative for all imported cotton and in recent years Chinese textile industries started to replace cotton by hemp fibres (Dempsey, 1975;Nebel, 1995;Keller, 1997;Bócsa and Karus, 1998;Van Dam, 1999;Keller et al, 2001;Leupin, 2001;Ebskamp, 2002;Beerepoot, 2003;Blackburn et al, 2004;De Boo, 2006;Anonymous, 2007Anonymous, , 2010.…”

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“…Hemp long fibres are in many aspects comparable with the yarns spun from the bast fibres of flax. The fabrics woven from hemp yarns wrinkle and breathe like linen, and have the same 'natural' irregular structure (Robinson, 1996;Ebskamp, 2002;Anonymous, 1994b;Preti, 2006). New applications of fibre hemp for textiles, however, are surely not restricted to the apparel section.…”

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Hemp for textiles : plant size matters

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Fibre hemp (Cannabis sativa L.) may be an alternative to cotton and synthetic fibres as a raw material for textile yarn production in the European Union. The agronomic options to manipulate plant development and crop growth with the aim to optimise hemp long fibre production were investigated. Field trials with factors sowing density, sowing date, harvest time and variety were conducted. Stems were traditionally processed by retting, drying, breaking, and scutching. Following standard protocols, almost 1500 hemp stem samples were analysed. Varieties differ widely in their fibre content, but this thesis shows that when variety and plant size are known, the amounts of fibres, wood, and retting losses are known. The dry weight of the stems at harvest, not the factors underlying this weight, are determinant. In retted stems the dry matter is split-up into fibres and wood in a fixed way. The options to manipulate this ratio by crop management, given variety, are very small and for practical reasons they can be neglected. In fibre hemp two bast fibre types occur. Primary or long fibres are valuable for yarn spinning. Secondary fibres are too short and their presence hampers the production of fine yarns. This thesis shows that the secondary fibre front height increases with plant weight. Although a causal relationship between secondary fibre formation and flowering does not exist, the secondary fibre front is found higher in flowering plants when compared to non-flowering plants of the same height. This is likely to be caused by the higher weight or momentum of flowering plants as compared with non-flowering plants of the same height.Consequently, a harvest before flowering is preferable. This was shown in a greenhouse experiment, in which the short-day response of hemp was used to create size ranges of flowering and non-flowering plants. To produce high-quality raw materials for textile production, short crops should be grown. The options to produce plants with the desired size are manifold. Since sowing density, sowing date, and harvest time do not have an additional effect on the primary fibre content besides the indirect effect through stem weight, any combination of these factors could be chosen to optimize plant size.

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Engineering flax and hemp for an alternative to cotton

Cited by 54 publications

References 14 publications

Building flax fibres: more than one brick in the walls

Building flax fibres: more than one brick in the walls

Cold Pad Batch Dyeing of Linen Fabric With Some Reactive Dyes

Hemp for textiles : plant size matters

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