Table 4.

Tensile properties of technical fibers: green fibers (H4V), dew-retted fibers (H4R), fibers treated with polygalacturonase (H4V-PG) and fibers treated with pectate lyase (H4V-PaL) with σf = failure strength, εf = failure strain, E = Young’s modulus and Ø = diameter value [64]. Reprinted from [64], copyright 2012, with permission from Elsevier.

	H4V	H4R	H4V-PG	H4V-PaL
σf (MPa)	305 ± 120	310 ± 120	325 ± 115	470 ± 165
εf (%)	1.3 ± 0.4	1.1 ± 0.4	1.9 ± 0.9	1.4 ± 0.5
E (GPa)	31 ± 12	32 ± 12	22 ± 12	37 ± 15
Ø (μm)	135 ± 33	85 ± 20	95 ± 32	76 ± 16