From: The elastic modulus for maize stems
Group
Length (mm)
Aspect ratio (length/width)
Bending (n = 1000)
950.84 ± 150.55
46.36 ± 9.26a
Compression (n = 100)
186.82 ± 26.11
9.64 ± 1.59a
Tensile (n = 20)
80.26 ± 1.67
25.81 ± 4.34b