Researchers have leveraged the power of the CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing system to enhance natural rubber production in rubber dandelion (Taraxacum kok-saghyz). The CRISPR system's efficiency and ...

Edison, Firestone, Ford, or Rockefeller, the giants of American industry and invention believed one crop could rule them all: natural rubber. Industrialization, subterfuge and war couldn’t gain rubber ...

"The Russian dandelion makes a rubber that . . . is very similar to the tire rubber," Cornish said. "And it can be grown here." In 2008, a $3 million Third Frontier grant from the state of Ohio was ...

Prickly lettuce, a common weed that has long vexed farmers, has potential as a new cash crop providing raw material for rubber production, according to scientists. These findings open the way for ...

DURHAM, N.C.—A new startup company, Edison Agrosciences Inc., is developing a sunflower rubber crop in order to diversify rubber production. According to the company website, sunflower is a native ...

GBARNGA, Liberia (AP) — Christopher Reeves has farmed rubber for more than three decades in Liberia, selling his crop to the international tire-maker Firestone, which also operates the world’s largest ...