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Sources of Natural Rubber

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/rubber-sources

Hevea brasiliensis (Rubber Tree) The rubber tree will grow to be 100 to 130 feet in height, and ... A rubber tree can be tapped for latex when it is six years of age. Parthenium argentatum (Guayule) ... as an alternate source of latex that is also hypoallergenic, unlike the normal Hevea rubber. The name ...

Lu Zhao

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/LuZhao

allocation between rubber synthesis and storage carbohydrate inulin, and evaluating the contribution of ... inulin reserves in providing carbon for rubber synthesis in Taraxacum kok-saghyz and Taraxacum ...

GM Commits to 'Green' Natural Rubber for Millions of Tires

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/gm-commits-green-natural-rubber-millions-tires

General Motors said it will commit to buying sustainable natural rubber for the 49 million tires ... it buys annually, an initiative aimed at helping small rubber farmers while protecting company ...

Lily Zinan Luo

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/LilyZinanLuo

rubber yield of Rubber Dandelion (TK) using a combination of traditional and modern breeding methods such ...

Natural Rubber- US Centric Industrial Crop Innovation for BioEconomy Growth

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/natural-rubber-us-centric-industrial-crop-innovation-bioeconomy-growth

The US can support rubber/energy crops the size of corn or soybean with hundreds of thousands of ... new jobs, and the need is pressing, because world rubber demand is expected to grow from 12 million ...

A Rubber Producing Dandelion May Mean a Solution to Deforestation Problems in Asia

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/news/rubber-producing-dandelion-may-mean-solution-deforestation-problems-asia

hand!) from rubber trees, mostly in southeast Asia- enough to fill over 5,200 Olympic-sized swimming ...

New and Niche Businesses

https://wayne.osu.edu/news/new-and-niche-businesses

public sale must have an inspector on-site. Plants that operate under “custom-exempt” status can only ...

Prof. Katrina Cornish

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/people/KatrinaCornish

and is the first Ohio Research Scholar to be appointed. She leads a program in alternate rubber ... expert, and is internationally recognized as a principal authority, on alternative natural rubber ... production, properties and products, and on natural rubber biosynthesis. ...

Other

https://cornishlab.cfaes.ohio-state.edu/publications/other

Increased Yield Geographic variation in natural rubber yields in natural populations of Helianthus annuus ...

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