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Journal of Integrative Agriculture  2018, Vol. 17 Issue (05): 1120-1127    DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(17)61730-1
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Fiber damage of machine-harvested cotton before ginning and after lint cleaning
TIAN Jing-shan1, ZHANG Xu-yi1, ZHANG Wang-feng1, LI Jian-feng1, YANG Yan-long1, DONG Heng-yi2, JIU Xing-li2, YU Yong-chuan3, ZHAO Zhan4, XU Shou-zhen1, ZUO Wen-qing1 
1 Key Laboratory of Oasis Eco-Agriculture, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps/College of Agronomy, Shihezi University, Shihezi 832003, P.R.China
2 Regimental Farm 149, Division Eight, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Changji 832052, P.R.China
3 Regimental Farm 133, Division Eight, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Changji 832064, P.R.China
4 Regimental Farm 12, Division One, Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, Alaer 843301, P.R.China
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Abstract  Machine harvesting increases the foreign matter content of seed cotton.  Excessive cleaning causes fiber damage and economic loss.  Most trading companies in the Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, China have indicated reluctance to use machine-harvested cotton.  The first objective was to determine how the fiber quality was affected by the ginning and lint cleaning and how the fiber damage during levels of lint cleaning changed. The second objective was to determine the optimum number of lint cleaners for machine-harvested cotton based on fiber damage.  Cotton samples were collected from 13 fields and processed in seven ginneries between 2013 and 2015.  The results indicated that ginning and lint cleaning didn’t have significant effect on fiber strength and significantly affected both fiber length and short fiber index.  Fiber length was reduced by more than 1.00 mm from six of 13 fields after lint cleaning, then the damage rate on short fiber index from 11 of 13 fields was more than 20%.  The third lint cleaning caused great fiber damage, reducing fiber length by 0.35 mm and increasing short fiber index by 0.65%.  So, the lint should be cleaned by one lint cleaner in the Xinjiang, however, the stage of lint cleaning was sometimes omitted when the foreign matter content of lint was little.
Keywords:  Xinjiang        machine-harvested cotton        lint cleaning        foreign matter  
Received: 21 June 2017   Accepted:
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This work was supported by the National Key Technology R&D Program of China (2014BAD09B03) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31560366).

Corresponding Authors:  Correspondence ZHANG Wang-feng, Tel: +86-993-2057326, Fax: +86-993-2057999, E-mail: zhwf_agr@shzu.edu.cn   
About author:  TIAN Jing-shan, E-mail: tjshan1983@sina.com;

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TIAN Jing-shan, ZHANG Xu-yi, ZHANG Wang-feng, LI Jian-feng, YANG Yan-long, DONG Heng-yi, JIU Xing-li, YU Yong-chuan, ZHAO Zhan, XU Shou-zhen, ZUO Wen-qing. 2018. Fiber damage of machine-harvested cotton before ginning and after lint cleaning. Journal of Integrative Agriculture, 17(05): 1120-1127.

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