Guayule Genome Decoded »
Yulex senior scientist Katrina Cornish, Ph.D., and colleagues from the USDA’s Agriculture Research Service published a paper yesterday in BMC Plant Biology journal detailing their effort to sequence the complete plastid genome in guayule. Plastids are major organelles found in the cells of plants and algae. Plastids manufacture and store important chemical compounds used by the [...]
Guayule: Then & Now »
In a Salinas, Calif. newspaper we recently came across a great column chronicling the guayule industry in that region before and after the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941. With trade from Southeast Asia cut off and rubber essential to the U.S. war effort, the guayule rubber produced in Salinas became a national security issue overnight. A key difference [...]
Governor’s Innovation Award finalist seeks growers »
Named a finalist in the Arizona Tech Council’s prestigious Governor’s Celebration of Innovation, Yulex Corporation is inviting farmers and agriculture leaders to learn about cultivating guayule and partnering with Yulex as the company expands in Arizona. Meetings are scheduled for September 12, 15, and 23 from 10:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at the University of [...]
EU funds €7.7 million program to produce rubber from guayule and other crops »
Known as the EU-PEARLS project, it is being coordinated by Wageningen University in the Netherlands with the involvement of the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, France, Germany, Spain, and Kazakhstan. Yulex Corporation is providing support on behalf of the U.S. The project aims to develop new crops for the production and [...]
WW II Guayule Rubber Project topic of L.A. presentation »
If you live in the Los Angeles area and want to learn more about guayule’s history in WWII as a source of natural rubber, attend this October 18 event. Frank Akira Kageyama will speak about the Guayule Rubber Project at Manzanar, one of ten concentration camps where over 110,000 Japanese Americans were imprisioned during World [...]
