subject: Bamboo may replace cotton, multi-functional - Hydraulic Couplings Supplier - Precision Fasteners [print this page] Bamboo is a versatile, ancient profusion of plants, they have the growth characteristics of wood, through the roots stretch, grow into a great little bamboo grove.
Environmentalists are very fond of bamboo, calling for the new plant to save the planet.
Bamboo breathe exhaled carbon dioxide, oxygen. It is a very strong vitality of the plant, its own production of antibacterial compounds, without the use of pesticides will be able to grow exuberant foliage.
Function with a porous bamboo fiber production plant that is breathable and butter, soft as silk. In fact, the fabric designers have flocked to China and Japan grow Chuk Yuen to conduct investigations. 5 issue of National Geographic magazine predicted that the sudden prevalence of bamboo fabric may some day destabilize cotton.
We're very nervous, but bamboo resources. Bamboo every 60 years -120 years would be a flower, then die, bamboo propagation by seed is difficult to pass. Cuttings propagation is also very difficult.
In 2004, JackieHeinricher and RandyBurr for the first time the United States to Washington Skagit Valley Garden Center Sales 2000 bamboo cultivated in vitro, they caused a sensation in the world.
Heinricher is a biologist, she said, bamboo is the most difficult to cultivate plants. Heinricher from childhood grew up with bamboo, because her family around the house planted with bamboo, and her father, watching over the bamboo. Heinricher began in the late 1990s in their own greenhouses for propagation of bamboo, and her husband, GuyThornburgh is a marine biologist, in 1998, she established a bamboo garden.
She persuaded B & B owner Burr to help her lab experiments. Burr said that bamboo is very tough test, they had eight years of almost no results of various tests to try to induce in vitro propagation of bamboo.
We're very delicate bamboo plants, there is the umbrella bamboo, Fargesia Shen Nong (Fargesiamurielae), the bamboo has a soft pea-green clusters of leaves, as well as the habit of crying, there is the same as the hero bamboo (Phyllostachysedulis), it is hard olive green bamboo stem can grow 70 feet a year.
For the fabrics, food and paper, the bamboo fiber is a renewable resource. U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1933 and 1965 carried out in Alabama sponsored the planting trials have shown that bamboo can produce paper and other wood products, each acre can produce 14 tons of bamboo, wood, compared to the United States as a Main loblolly pine timber resources, each acre can produce 8 tons of wood.
