"Most open-end spinning plants that have the older model spinning frames in them are really dirty and dusty and not fun to be around," she said.
And at Dzudzuana Cave in Georgia, 30,000 year old spun plant fibres were found which had been dyed: pink, black and turquoise blue!
A farmer in Kenya loves his big knife, which he calls a slasher; a farmer in Indiana loves his chain saw; a farmer in Australia loves his tractor; a farmer in Italy loves his boots; and a grape farmer in France loves his dynamizer, a machine that spins plants, herbs, and water until they blend together and can be sprayed on his vines.
To overcome the issues of immunobarrier biocompatibility, we developed a Polysulfone (Psf)/TPGS composite hollow fiber membrane (HFM) using a hollow fiber spinning pilot plant specially developed for this purpose.
Total DNA from fresh, silica-dried or herbarium material was extracted with the Nucleo-Spin plant kit according to the manufacturer's protocol (Macherey Nagel, Düren, Germany).
DHL92, T-111, PI 161375, C-836 and C-1012 DNA was obtained from tender young leaves using the Nucleo-Spin Plant II (Macherey-Nagel).
DNA was extracted from young tender leaves of a five-week old DHL92 plant using the Nucleo-Spin Plant II (Macherey-Nagel) to give ca. 30 ng/μl DNA per sample.
For PacBio RS sequencing, a standard genomic extraction was prepared with a much smaller starting volume (approximately 10 mg) of material from both collections using the Invisorb spin plant mini kit (Invitek, Berlin, Germany).
The reason is that the energy is highly variable, and utilities, afraid of being caught short if the wind dies or the sun goes behind a cloud, maintain "spinning reserve" — plants that are, in effect, idling but ready to take off at a moment's notice.
On Monday Susanna Harris, an ancient textiles expert from Glasgow university, studied an unprepossessing bundle of blackened fibres and found a reel of thread spun from plant fibre, finer than a human hair.
