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Improvement of fibre and composites for new markets

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Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses

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Plant fibres have decisive advantages compared with synthetic fibres. One great advantage of plant fibres is their optimized strength to weight ratio. Others are their better workability as a result of optimum fibre length and cell wall thickness, their high anisotropic qualities and their good ion exchange capacity. The natural products are readily biodegradable and renewable.

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  1. Plant Research International, Wageningen-UR, Droevendaalsesteeg 1, Wageningen, 6708 PB, the Netherlands

    Marcel Toonen

  2. Genetwister Technologies, Nieuwe Kanaal 7b, Wageningen, 6709 PA, the Netherlands

    Michel Ebskamp

  3. Institute of Applied Research at Reutlingen University, Alteburgstrasse 150, Reutlingen, 72762, Germany

    Robert Kohler

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Toonen, M., Ebskamp, M., Kohler, R. (2007). Improvement of fibre and composites for new markets. In: RANALLI, P. (eds) Improvement of Crop Plants for Industrial End Uses. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5486-0_6

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