Publications

Publications by the EU-PEARLS Consortium

Wahler et al. (2009) "Polyphenoloxidase silencing affects latex coagulation in Taraxacum spp." Plant Physiol. 151: 334-346. Link.

Prüfer, D. (2009) "Rubber biosynthesis promoters from Taraxacum koksaghyz and their use." World patent application WO20091095059. Link.

Schmidt,T. et al. (2010) "Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Rubber Biosynthetic Genes from Taraxacum koksaghyz." Plant Molecular Biology Reporter 28(2): 277-284. Link.

Schmidt,T. et al. (2010) "Characterization of rubber particles and rubber chain elongation in Taraxacum koksaghyz." BMC Biochemistry 11: 11-22. Link.


Recent reviews on guayule and Russian dandelion

Mooibroek, H. and K. Cornish (2000). "Alternative sources of natural rubber." Appl. Microbiol. Biotechnol. 53(4): 355-365. Link.

Cataldo, F. (2000) "Guayule rubber: a new possible world scenario for the production of natural rubber." Progr. Rubber Plastics Technol. 18: 31-59. Link.

Cornish, K. (2001). "Similarities and differences in rubber biochemistry among plant species." Phytochem. 57(7): 1123-1134. Link.

Nakayama, F. S. (2005). "Guayule future development." Ind. Crops Prod. 22(1): 3-13. Link.

Schloman, W. W. (2005). "Processing guayule for latex and bulk rubber." Ind. Crops Prod. 22(1): 41-47. Link.

van Beilen, J. B. and Y. Poirier (2007). "Establishment of new crops for the production of natural rubber." Trends Biotechnol. 25(11): 522-529. Link.

van Beilen, J. B. and Y. Poirier (2007). "Guayule and Russian Dandelion as Alternative Sources of Natural Rubber." Crit. Rev. Biotechnol. 27(4): 217-231. Link.


Books

Finlay, M. R. (2009). Growing american rubber. Strategic plants and the politics of national security., Rutgers University Press. In press.

Heim, S. (2007). Calories, Caoutchouc, Careers. Plant breeding and agrarian research in Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institutes 1933-1945. Göttingen, Springer

Jackson, J. (2008). The thief at the end of the world. Rubber, power, and the seeds of the empire. London, Viking Penguin.

Polhamus, L. G. (1962). Rubber. Botany, production, and utilization. London, Leonard Hill Limited.

Ulmann, M. (1951). Wertvolle Kautschukpflanzen des gemässigten Klimas. Dargestellt auf Grund von Sowjetischer Forschungsarbeiten. Berlin, Akademie Verlag.

Lloyd, F. E. (1912). "Guayule (Parthenium argentatum, Gray), a Rubber Plant of the Chihuahua Desert." Carnegie Inst. Washington Publ. 139(Chap. 8): 213 pp, 46 plates.


Reports

Suomela, H. (1950). On the possibilities of growing Taraxacum kok-saghyz in Finland. On basis of the investigations conducted in the years 1943-1948. Helsinki, State Agricultural Research

Whaley, W. G. and J. S. Bowen (1947). Russian dandelion (kok-saghyz). An emergency source of natural rubber. Washington D.C., United States Department of Agriculture.

Whitworth, J. W. and E. E. Whitehead (1991). Guayule Natural Rubber: A Technical Publication with Emphasis on Recent Findings. Tucson, Guayule Administrative Management Committee andUSDA Cooperative Research Service, Office of Arid Lands Studies, University of Arizona.

van Beilen, J. B., M. Toonen, et al. (2006). Alternative sources of natural rubber. Outputs of the epobio project. Berks, CNAP, University of York.