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. 2012 Dec 30;2013:186534. doi: 10.5402/2013/186534

Table 7.

Effect of enzyme and chelator amounts on properties of mature Ariane flax stems.

Viscozyme/Mayoquest 200 (%)a Fine fiber yieldb (%) Strengthc (g/tex) Finenessd (airflow)
0/0 4.3 ± 1.7f 26.9 ± 0.8a 8.0 ± 0a
0.05/0.4 5.4 ± 2.2ef 24.0 ± 1.4abc 7.7 ± 0.1abc
0.05/0.7 7.0 ± 1.8bcde 23.9 ± 5.5abc 7.9 ± 0ab
0.05/1.8 8.5 ± 0.6abc 24.6 ± 2.3ab 7.7 ± 0.1abc
0.1/0.4 6.2 ± 1.3def 20.3 ± 2.5bcd 7.6 ± 0.1abc
0.1/0.7 7.3 ± 1.8bcde 17.9 ± 2.3de 7.6 ± 0.1abc
0.1/1.8 7.9 ± 1.2abcd 20.3 ± 1.8bcd 7.1 ± 0cde
0.2/0.4 6.7 ± 0.9cde 18.1 ± 0.6de 7.4 ± 0.1bcde
0.2/0.7 7.9 ± 1.3abcd 17.6 ± 0de 7.0 ± 0.5de
0.2/1.8 8.9 ± 2.1ab 17.7 ± 1.4de 6.9 ± 0.4e
0.3/0.4 5.5 ± 0.9ef 15.3 ± 0.5e 7.5 ± 0.7abcd
0.3/0.7 7.3 ± 1.1bcde 18.1 ± 1.3de 6.9 ± 0.1e
0.3/1.8 9.8 ± 0.8a 19.5 ± 0.7cde 6.9 ± 0e

aViscozyme L (Novozymes) added as percentage of product as supplied. EDTA was supplied as Mayoquest 200 with 38% EDTA and used to enzyme ret mature Ariane stems.

bEnzyme-retted straw passed through hand-card 2X and passed 1X through a Shirley Analyzer.

cAverage and standard deviation of 2 replicates of Shirley-cleaned fiber, with each replicate an average of 6 tests by Stelometer (force at break divided by weight by standard cotton testing).

dAverage and standard deviation of 2 replicates of Shirley-cleaned fiber, with each replicate an average of 2 tests by air flow using approximately 5 g based and IFC flax fiber standards for fineness (similar to methods used for cotton fineness).

a,b,c,d,e,fWithin columns, values with different lower case letters differ at P < 0.05.

Methods in [31]. Data from [32].