This study represents the first works on manufacture of reinforcements for composite applications such as yarns and fabrics using a tropical fiber extracted from bast Cola Lepidota (CL) plant. Different types products were produced, including twisted untwisted woven quasi-unidirectional to samples. At each scale, experimental characterizations textile mechanical properties carried out; these ar...

The components of flax (Linum usitatissimum) stems are described and illustrated, with reference to the anatomy and chemical makeup and to applications in processing and products. Bast fiber, which is a major economic product of flax along with linseed and linseed oil, is described with particular reference to its application in textiles, composites, and specialty papers. A short history of ret...

Flax (Linum usitatissimum) stems contain cells showing contrasting cell wall structure: lignified in inner stem xylem tissue and hypolignified in outer stem bast fibers. We hypothesized that stem hypolignification should be associated with extensive phenolic accumulation and used metabolomics and transcriptomics to characterize these two tissues. (1)H nuclear magnetic resonance clearly distingu...

Context. The pioneer space mission for photometric exoplanet searches, CoRoT, steadily monitors about 12000 stars in each of its fields of view. Transit detection algorithms are applied to derive promising planetary candidates, which are then followed-up with ground-based observations. Aims. We present BAST (Berlin Automatic Search for Transits), a new algorithm for periodic transit detection, ...