Tire prototypes made with Russian dandelion and guayule will be presented at a conference in September, as Europe explores alternative sources of 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 ...

The Russian dandelion helped supply the Allied forces with rubber through the Second World War. Now, tire makers are hoping it could make a commercial comeback. In 1931, Soviet scientists were on ...

The dandelion’s bright yellow bloom and fuzzy, parachute-like seeds are a familiar sight across the continents. But scientists at Dutch biotech firm KeyGene believe the flower’s true beauty ...

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The Russian dandelion turned out to be the closest match: "There are other strains of dandelion, but the Russian dandelion is a very large plant, and the rubber is in the roots, ...

"We have been working (on the) Russian dandelion since 2008," he said. "With our extensive network in agriculture, greenhouse, seed propagation and commercial rubber sales, KeyGene is an ideal global ...

This particular dandelion can thrive in a large part of the world. The growth cycle for the Russian dandelion is approximately one year. Conversely, the rubber tree has a long-life cycle, where ...

But none seem to produce as much as the Russian dandelion or contain as strong a rubber. Seiple said that a truck tire made with 1.5 pounds of rubber from Uzbekistan had "fairly similar properties ...

ST. LOUIS—Kultevat, a St. Louis-based biotech company, and KeyGene, a molecular genetics company based in the Netherlands, have announced the joint development of the first genetic lines of Russian ...