Rong Liu

TL;DR: In this article, the fracture modes of bamboo fibers pertaining to their cell wall microstructure were evaluated and three main fracture types were identified according to the fiber cell wall structure: brittle, ductile and splintering tension failure.

TL;DR: The morphology and classification of VPCs of moso bamboo by light microscopy and scanning electron microscopy revealed that vascular parenchyma could be divided into three categories according to cell geometric morphology: cells with two transverse end walls, cells with one oblique end and one transverseEnd walls, and cells with three obliqueEnd walls.

TL;DR: Observations of metaxylem vessels and pits in moso bamboo culm internodes were carried out using environmental scanning electron microscopy to examine mature bamboo fractures and resin casts and showed that bordered pits were distributed in relation to adjacent cell types with most pits between vessel and parenchyma cells and few pits between vessels and fibers of the bundle sheath.

TL;DR: This study identified the first compound pits ever to be found in a bamboo species and these were found to occur more frequently in amphipodial and monopodial bamboos than in sympodialbamboos.