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Fig. 7

From: The sequential microbial breakdown of pectin is the principal incident during water retting of jute (Corchorus spp.) bast fibres

Fig. 7

Light microscopy of longitudinal sections of jute stems. Differential staining was performed with ruthenium red and toluidine blue ‘o’. Pectin-rich parenchyma catches the color of ruthenium red, and the presence of lignin causes the fibre bundles to take blue tint of toluidine blue O: a) fresh stem (day 0) with intact orientation of plant tissues; b) mid-retted (day 7) bark samples showing gaps between the bast fibre bundles; and c) dissociated fibre bindles of retted fibre samples (day 10). Scale bar = 200 μm

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