Archive for October, 2008

EU funds €7.7 million program to produce rubber from guayule and other crops »

By Julie on Oct 9, 2008 in Guayule News | 0 Comments

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 »

By Julie on Oct 4, 2008 in Guayule News | 3 Comments

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 [...]