Abacá – Cultivation, Extraction and Processing

Göltenboth, Friedhelm; Mühlbauer, Werner

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“…One of the major agricultural export commodities of the Philippines is the abaca (Musa textilis Née), a fiber crop widely distributed in the humid tropics, and is known to be indigenous to the Philippines [1,2]. About 85% of the world market consumption for abaca fiber is supplied by the Philippines which generates a total of US$111.5 M earnings in 2018 [3].…”

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“…The huge economic value of abaca is a driving force in the Philippine agriculture with an industry that supports the livelihood of nearly 1.5 M Filipinos including 122,758 farmers who cultivate a total of 180,302 hectares of abaca [3]. The abaca plant is a close relative of the banana, belonging to the family Musaceae of the order Zingibareles [2]. The Musaceae family is further divided into two genera, the Musa and Ensete which are known for their edible fruits.…”

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Sequencing and de Novo Assembly of Abaca (Musa textilis Née) var. Abuab Genome

Galvez

Koh

Barbosa

et al. 2021

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Abaca (Musa textilis Née), an indigenous crop to the Philippines, is known to be the source of the strongest natural fiber. Despite its huge economic contributions, research on crop improvement is limited due to the lack of genomic data. In this study, the whole genome of the abaca var. Abuab was sequenced using Illumina Novaseq 6000 and Pacific Biosciences Single-Molecule Real-Time Sequel. The genome size of Abuab was estimated to be 616 Mbp based on total k-mer number and volume peak. Its genome was assembled at 65× depth, mapping 95.28% of the estimated genome size. BUSCO analysis recovered 78.2% complete BUSCO genes. A total of 33,277 gene structures were predicted which is comparable to the number of predicted genes from recently assembled Musa spp. genomes. A total of 330 Mbp repetitive elements were also mined, accounting to 53.6% of the genome length. Here we report the sequencing and genome assembly of the abaca var. Abuab that will facilitate gene discovery for crop improvement and an indispensable source for genetic diversity studies in Musa.

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Sequencing and de Novo Assembly of Abaca (Musa textilis Née) var. Abuab Genome

Galvez

Koh

Barbosa

et al. 2021

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“…S3, on the other hand, is usually shorter with dark red to dark brown color and is retrieved from the outer leaf sheaths. 33 Abaca fiber, has 1.5 g/cm 3 density, 980 MPa tensile strength and 41 GPa elastic modulus. 10 It is also known to be durable and resistant to seawater, which is why it is used as marine and naval cordage.…”

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A Review of Abaca Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Different Modes of Preparation and Their Applications

Barba

Madrid

Penaloza

2020

J. Chil. Chem. Soc.

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Fiber-reinforced polymer composites have received increased attention due to their environmental friendliness and sustainability, aside from at par-if not betterproperty enhancement achieved through fiber reinforcement over mineral-based fillers. The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive review on the various methods of fiber-based polymer composites preparation as well as their applications, particularly focusing on abaca-reinforced hybrid materials. Among the natural fibers available in the market, abaca fiber has been a major contender in the development of natural fiber composites. It has a great potential to be a renewable fiber source for industrial and technological applications owing to its inherent high mechanical strength, durability, flexibility and long fiber length. Impacts of different treatment strategies of abaca-based composites preparation resulting in property enhancements over bare polymer counterparts and that of synthetic fibers are discussed. Being eco-friendly and naturally sustainable, abaca fiber-reinforced composites can also exhibit better strength without substantial weight gaincharacteristics that have been exploited in various commercial and technological uses. How these enhanced properties of the resulting composites had led in a wide range of applications such as in the automobile and construction industries and other fields had been included as well.

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“…Abaca fiber is considered as one of the strongest among natural fibers which are three times stronger than sisal [3]. It can be planted through disease-free tissue cultured plantlets, corm cut into 4 pieces with one eye each (seed piece) and sucker (used for replanting missing hills) [4].…”

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Automated Abaca Fiber Grade Classification Using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)

Montañez¹,

Barrera²

2020

Adv. sci. technol. eng. syst. j.

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This paper presents a solution that automates Abaca fiber grading which would help the time-consuming baling of Abaca fiber produce. The study introduces an objective instrument paired with a system to automate the grade classification of Abaca fiber using Convolutional Neural Network (CNN). In this study, 140 sample images of abaca fibers were used, which were divided into two sets: 70 images; 10 per grade, each for training and testing. The input images were then scaled to 112x112 pixels. Next, using a customized version of VGGNet-16 CNN architecture, the training set images were used for training. Finally, the performance of the classifier was evaluated by computing the overall accuracy of the system and its Cohen kappa value. Based on the result, the classifier achieved 83% accuracy in correctly classifying the Abaca fiber grade of a sample image and obtained a Cohen kappa value of 0.52 -Weak, Level of Agreement. The implementation of this study would greatly help Abaca producers and traders ensure that their Abaca fiber would be graded fairly and efficiently to maximize their profit.

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Abacá – Cultivation, Extraction and Processing

Cited by 16 publications

References 5 publications

Sequencing and de Novo Assembly of Abaca (Musa textilis Née) var. Abuab Genome

Sequencing and de Novo Assembly of Abaca (Musa textilis Née) var. Abuab Genome

A Review of Abaca Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites: Different Modes of Preparation and Their Applications

Automated Abaca Fiber Grade Classification Using Convolution Neural Network (CNN)

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