Bamboo Fibers (2011/11/15)
  Bamboo fibers are a renewable resource for fabric, food and paper. And experimental plantings in Alabama financed by the Agriculture Department between 1933 and 1965 showed bamboo’s promise for paper and other wood products: bamboo produced 14 tons of wood an acre, as against 8 for loblolly pine, a major source of timber in the United States.Many of these plants can now be produced on a vast scale, which is revolutionary for the garden industry. Countries like Belgium have explored the tissue-culturing of bamboo, but Boo-Shoots appears to be taking the lead.
   Planted in large groves, bamboo can store “four times the CO2 of a stand of trees of similar size,” Ms. Heinricher said, citing a study by Jules A. Janssen of the Technical University Eindhoven in the Netherlands, in 2000. “And,” she said, “it releases 35 percent more oxygen.”“I believe that Jackie is the first in America to figure out how to produce bamboo from tissue culture,” said Nicholas Staddon, the director of plant introductions for Monrovia, a wholesale grower with five locations in the United States. “She has made a substantial difference in how we bring plants to market.”
   In the old days, bamboo had to be divided and grown to marketable size in a cycle lasting three to five years. Now Monrovia and other growers can buy trays full of young plants from Boo-Shoots, which are potted up and sold as a finished product to other wholesalers and retail nurseries across the country.“There is a tremendous trend in the industry to use bamboo in the garden, and also in containers,” Mr. Staddon said. “And Jackie is working on varieties of bamboo which we are unfamiliar with, or have not been able to produce or acquire.”
   Developing tissue culture is a time-consuming process, Mr. Burr explained, in which a tiny cutting is sterilized in bleach, then put into a soup, or agar, of inorganic salts, plant sugars, hormones, vitamins and “all the building-block components that encourage tissue to generate and shoot new growth.” Getting that formula right can take years.
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