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    Parthenium argentatum, commonly known as the guayule (/ɡwaɪˈuːliː/ or /waɪˈuːleɪ/, as in Spanish), is a perennial woody shrub in the family Asteraceae...
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    Members of the genus are commonly known as feverfew. Notable species include guayule (P. argentatum) which has been used as a rubber substitute, especially...
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    members of the family Asteraceae. For instance, Parthenium argentatum the guayule plant, is in the tribe Heliantheae; other latex-bearing Asteraceae with...
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    The Manzanar Guayule Project began in April 1942, in the Manzanar internment camp. The objective of the project was to produce a domestic source of rubber...
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  • commonly called Guayule, was an ideal candidate as a replacement rubber due to the properties of the vulcanized rubber produced from Guayule, which were similar...
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    Yulex Corporation makes products from Guayule (Parthenium argentatum) a residual agricultural material. In 2008, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
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    alba to convert the latex from the Castilla elastica tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls. The sulfur in the morning glory's...
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  • in rubber chemicals and polymers, and for his DOE-funded work on using guayule rubber in tires. Colvin earned his BS in chemistry from the University...
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    contain species with useful insecticidal properties. Parthenium argentatum (guayule) is a source of hypoallergenic latex. Several members of the family are...
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    consolidation for the production of cash crops such as henequen, rubber, guayule, cochineal and coffee. Agricultural production boomed, especially coffee...
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    dracunculus (tarragon) is used as a culinary herb and Parthenium argentatum (guayule) is a rubber source. Some of the other genera are used as ornamentals;...
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    contract work remained. SRI's first research project investigated whether the guayule plant could be used as a source of natural rubber. During World War II...
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    1941 and 1945. From 1942 to 1945 he worked on producing rubber from the guayule shrub for the American Rubber Company. In 1947 he moved to the Botany Department...
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  • natural rubber from goldenrod or guayule. In 1997, Cornish patented a process to produce hypoallengic latex from guayule, and the patent was licensed to...
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    dandelion, and, perhaps most importantly for its hypoallergenic properties, guayule (Parthenium argentatum). The term gum rubber is sometimes applied to the...
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    Arizona Parker Valley Vidal, California Parker High School students planting guayule at the Poston War Relocation Center on April 9, 1942. Parker's main street...
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    founded the Intercontinental Rubber Company of New York, which dominated the guayule rubber market in the U.S. with holdings in Mexico. His partners in the...
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    (Liebm.) C.C.Berg Castilla elastica ssp. elastica Caucho, castilloa rubber. Guayule - another source of latex utilized by the pre-Columbian Mesoamericans Para...
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    Parker High School students planting guayule at the Poston War Relocation Center on April 9, 1942...
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    tire supplier Firestone announced the expanded use of tires made from guayule rubber as the "alternate" tire (which must be used for at least two green-flag...
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    (American ginseng) Papaver orientale (Oriental poppy) Parthenium argentatum (Guayule) Parthenocissus (Virginia Creeper) Pelargonium spp. (Pelargonium, Geranium)...
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    for select events. The tire is manufactured from rubber harvested from guayule, a plant requiring less water resources than traditional natural rubber...
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    contain the proteins from the Hevea brasiliensis tree. Products made from guayule natural rubber emulsions, which also do not contain the proteins from the...
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  • most conditions.[citation needed] For example, the woody desert shrub guayule, an alternative source of natural rubber, is first harvested at two years...
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    candelilla wax produced at factories at Glenn Spring and Mariscal, and the guayule rubber from a factory in Marathon. Brewster County became targeted by incursions...
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    textiles, and later also in mining, cotton mills, ranching, banking, coal, guayule rubber, and foundries in the later part of the nineteenth century. After...
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    Morgan founded the farm along the Santa Cruz River with hopes of growing guayule: plants that provide rubber. The project was abandoned after the end of...
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  • miles (5,200 km2) of land. The company was to plant 50 feet (15 m) of guayule (Parthenium argentatum) for every 200 pounds (91 kg) of rubber extracted...
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    on the front row. Twenty drivers started the race on alternate tires (guayule compound), while seven, including the three Arrow McLaren drivers and Will...
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    2010-06-08. Retrieved May 1, 2011. Van Beilen, Jan B.; Poirier, Yves (2007). "Guayule and Russian Dandelion as Alternative Sources of Natural Rubber". Critical...
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