Linen Most Useful: Perspectives on Structure, Chemistry, and Enzymes for Retting Flax

Table 7

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

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

^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].