Linen Most Useful: Perspectives on Structure, Chemistry, and Enzymes for Retting Flax
Table 5
Aromatic and lipid composition of flax fibers (mg/g).
Source
Total aromatics
Cutin1
Waxes
Natasja whole
2.9 ± 0.4
ND5
ND
Natasja lower
3.8 ± 0
ND
ND
Ariane unretted
7.2 ± 1.9
ND
ND
Ariane dew-retted
Trace
ND
ND
Ariane mature (man)2
1.1
0.3
1.6
Ariane early (man)2
0.8
0
0.8
Laura (man)2
0.5
0.1
1.3
Omega (man)2
2.1
0.1
2.8
Fiber (B) w 3
0.9 ± 0.2
8.8 ± 5.2
13.5 ± 5.0
Fiber (M) d 3
0.7 ± 0.1
4.6 ± 1.7
5.9 ± 1.5
Ariane mature er24
ND
3.7 ± 0.2
3.7 ± 0.2
Ariane early er24
0.8 ± 0.3
3.9 ± 1.1
3.0 ± 0.8
Omega er24
ND
8.8 ± 2.0
8.1 ± 1.4
ND seed flax er24
1.7 ± 0.6
10.9 ± 0.8
6.9 ± 1.7
1Cutin represented by analysis for 8,16-dihydroxyhexadecanoic acid.
2Fibers manually separated without any evidence of nonfibrous material.
3See Table 4 for description. 4Enzyme-retted 2 X.
5Not determined. Data adapted from [23–25, 28].
