During World War I, President Woodrow Wilson asked the Intercontinental Rubber Company owned by Bernard Baruch, J . P . Morgan and Kennedy to grow guayule.
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Corporation applies crop science, bioprocessing and materials science for the production of agricultural-based biomaterials made from Guayule ( " Parthenium argentatum " ).
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The late Melvin Calvin, winner of the 1961 Nobel Prize in chemistry, thought that guayule and other plants rich in hydrocarbons would remedy the depletion of oil.
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Department of Agriculture researcher Katrina Cornish said she will work with the rubber-producing trait to try to create several prototypes using different mixes of guayule and sunflower genes.
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The guayule ( gwah-YOO-lee ) plant, which grows wild mostly in the deserts of southwestern Texas and northern Mexico, is more difficult to grow commercially than sunflowers.
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Latex from non-" Hevea " sources, such as Guayule, can be used without allergic reaction by persons with an allergy to " Hevea " latex.
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Altamirano was interested in this euphorbiaceae due to its elastic resin content, which he hoped could be profitably converted into commercial rubber, as had been previously done with guayule in northern Mexico.
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Manzanar also had a camouflage net factory, an experimental plantation for producing natural rubber from the Guayule plant, and an orphanage called Children's Village, which housed 101 Japanese American orphans.
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In October 2015, the Bridgestone Corporation announced the creation of the first tires made entirely of guayule rubber, having built an experimental farm and biorubber research center in Mesa, Arizona the previous year.
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Ancient Mesoamerican civilizations used the morning glory species " Ipomoea alba " to convert the latex from the " Castilla elastica " tree and also the guayule plant to produce bouncing rubber balls.
