Kenaf or Hibiscus cannabinus is an annual herbaceous crop that grows well in temperate regions with high rainfall and abundant solar radiation. This Malvaceae member famously known for its high-quality fibre directly retrieved from dried stem materials useful various industries, mainly paper pulp, bio-composite, textiles manufacturing. With recent discoveries, kenaf can now be regarded as a mul...

Kenaf is a nonwoody fibrous plant, and its fibre can be potentially used as reinforcement in the matrix to produce biocomposite materials. The properties of materials are highly dependent on reinforcing material binder. This study kenaf with different compositions (10, 20, 30 wt.%) lengths (1 cm 3 cm) using casting process. Low viscosity epoxy resin (635 thin resin) 6 poise was matrix. results ...

Kenaf is an important bast fiber crop. In order to diversify the available kenaf simple sequence repeat (SSR) molecular markers and generate potentially useful for breeding, we developed expression tag (EST-SSR) based on lead-stressed transcriptome sequencing data spliced unigene sequences. Additionally, distribution of SSRs in potential functions SSR-containing genes were determined. Moreover,...

Ethylene response factors (ERF) are members of the APETALA2/ERF transcription factor family, and they play an important role in plant growth, development, to various environmental stresses. In this study, ERF HcERF4 was isolated characterized from kenaf. The results showed contained open reading frame 702 bp, which comprised single AP2 domain. Subcellular localization analysis revealed that gen...

In this study, activated carbon was prepared from kenaf fiber (KF) by using physiochemical activation method consisting of potassium hydroxide (KOH) impregnation with carbon dioxide (CO2) gasification. Pore structure and physical characteristics of the prepared activated carbon were determined. Adsorption studies for divalent lead (Pb) were carried out to delineate the effect of contact time, t...

Soda pulping was performed using kenaf stalk, core, and bast as raw materials. It was observed that all these components could yield good paper characteristics when the resulting pulps were beaten to a freeness of 200 to 300 mL. Soda pulp made from the stalk was comparable to the frond from oil palm in sheet properties, but the latter would require higher beating energy to reach similar freenes...