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Evaluation of commercial cultivars of banana for their suitability to fibre industry.

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Title Evaluation of commercial cultivars of banana for their suitability to fibre industry.
 
Creator Uma S., S.Kalpana, S.Sathiamoorthy and V Kumar.
 
Subject FIBRES, VARIETY TRIALS, PSEUDOSTEMS, CELLULOSE, INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTS, CELLULOSE PRODUCTS, INDIA
 
Description Bananas and plantains (Musa spp.) are important crops within the global fruit industry. They are cultivated in over 120 countries, over an area of 10 million hectares, with an annual production of 88 million metric tonnes (Sharrock and Frison 1998).


In India, banana is appropriately referred as ‘Kalpatharu’, a plant of all virtues. Each and every part of the plant is used for specific purposes. Apart from its use as a dessert fruit and for culinary purposes, the banana plant has multifaceted uses: the leaf is commonly used as a hygienic dining plate; the male flower is a favourite vegetable; the inner core of the pseudostem is a popular vegetable, with many therapeutic uses; the sap is used as an indelible ink in industry and the underground rhizome is exploited as animal feed in a composite mixture with other feedstuffs (Singh and Uma 1996).
Banana (Musa spp.) fibre has many and varied applications in the pulp and paperindustry, as well as acting as a natural water purifier, and having uses in bioremediation and recycling, for printing currency, and also in the textile industry. The fibre is extracted from the plant pseudostem either manually or mechanically. Six commercial banana cultivars of different genomic groups (AAA, AAB and ABB) were tested to evaluate their suitability for use in the fibre industry. Various yield and quality components such as biomass production, fibre yield, total soluble solids, pH, total acidity, moisture content, total carbohydrates and total cellulose were analysed. The fibre yield was found to be higher in AAB genomes, represented by cultivars Pachanadan and Poovan, than the others. However, all the commercial varieties yielded good quality fibre, as indicated by their cellulose content
 
Date 2017-02-17T04:36:50Z
2017-02-17T04:36:50Z
2005-01-01
 
Type Research Paper
 
Identifier Uma S., S.Kalpana, S.Sathiamoorthy and V Kumar. 2005 . Evaluation of commercial cultivars of banana for their suitability to fibre industry. Plant Genetic Technology Newsletter, 142:1-8.
1020-3362
http://krishi.icar.gov.in/jspui/handle/123456789/2539
 
Language English
 
Publisher Musalit