Bambooseemed to fit the billItgrowsquickly , de-grades readily and has appropriately long fibres. And it worked .When the researchers blended a small amount of bamboo pulp into bagasse, theyfound that theresult had a strong interweaving of short and longfibres. As a bonus, they also discovered that the hotpressing used as part of the process hadmobilised some of the lignin in the fibres,and that this stiff, water-repellin materialwas nowacting as an adhesive that boundthe fibres together .