Non-cellulose substances like pectin and hemicelluloses influence the fiber properties such as strength, flexibility, moisture and also density significantly (Li et al. 2010).
However, regarding moisture-transport performance properties researchers argue that bamboo fiber has a larger moisture regain capability than other natural fibers such as cotton because of its loose structure and existence of disordered non-cellulose substances (Li et al. 2010).
Termites are also extremely beneficial in that they help to convert plant cellulose into substances that can be recycled into the ecosystem to support new growth.
Concomitantly, the cellulose content is reduced.
Both cellulose, the substance that gives structural rigidity to plants, and starch, the energy storage product of plants, are polymeric carbohydrates.
A 1930 painting entitled Tp 2, whose blue plastic support was long described in museum records as Trolitan (the German version of Bakelite), turned out to be a cellulose nitrate substance commercially labeled as Trolit F which, unlike Bakelite, is easily prone to degradation.
He sells them to producers of Asian medicine and to cosmetic companies that value the insects as a cheap source of protein as well as for the cellulose-like substance on their wings.
Analyses of a wide range of soils and reference samples (cellulose, lignin, humic substances, lignite, charcoal, coal, etc).
The polychromatic stain toluidine blue O (TBO) can distinguish lignin, cellulose, and pectic substances on the basis of color differences (O'Brien et al. 1964; Feder and O'Brien 1968; O'Brien and McCully 1981).
