Establishment of new crops for the production of natural rubber

JB Van Beilen, Y Poirier - TRENDS in Biotechnology, 2007 - cell.com
Natural rubber is a unique biopolymer of strategic importance that, in many of its most
significant applications, cannot be replaced by synthetic alternatives. The rubber tree Hevea …

Got milk? The secret life of laticifers

JM Hagel, EC Yeung, PJ Facchini - Trends in plant science, 2008 - cell.com
Laticifers are specialized cells that occur in over 20 plant families in several unrelated
angiosperm orders. Although laticifers are likely to be of polyphyletic origin, their occurrence …

[HTML][HTML] Draft genome sequence of the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis

AYA Rahman, AO Usharraj, BB Misra, GP Thottathil… - BMC genomics, 2013 - Springer
Background Hevea brasiliensis, a member of the Euphorbiaceae family, is the major
commercial source of natural rubber (NR). NR is a latex polymer with high elasticity …

[HTML][HTML] De novo assembly and characterization of bark transcriptome using Illumina sequencing and development of EST-SSR markers in rubber tree (Hevea …

D Li, Z Deng, B Qin, X Liu, Z Men - BMC genomics, 2012 - Springer
Background In rubber tree, bark is one of important agricultural and biological organs.
However, the molecular mechanism involved in the bark formation and development in …

[HTML][HTML] Biosynthesis of natural rubber: current state and perspectives

X Men, F Wang, GQ Chen, HB Zhang… - International Journal of …, 2018 - mdpi.com
Natural rubber is a kind of indispensable biopolymers with great use and strategic
importance in human society. However, its production relies almost exclusively on rubber …

Natural rubber-producing sources, systems, and perspectives for breeding and biotechnology studies of Taraxacum kok-saghyz

M Salehi, K Cornish, M Bahmankar… - Industrial crops and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Natural rubber (NR, cis-1, 4-polyisoprene) is applied in over 50,000 products. It has
unique properties, which cannot be matched by synthetic rubber. The pará rubber tree …

[图书][B] Biology of Hevea rubber

PM Priyadarshan - 2011 - Springer
Natural rubber has been an essential commodity not only for the tyre industry but also for
more than 50,000 products that hold elasticity as an attribute. Rubber is obtained from the …

[HTML][HTML] The rubber tree genome shows expansion of gene family associated with rubber biosynthesis

NS Lau, Y Makita, M Kawashima, TD Taylor, S Kondo… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg, a member of the family Euphorbiaceae, is the sole
natural resource exploited for commercial production of high-quality natural rubber. The …

[HTML][HTML] Identification and reconstitution of the rubber biosynthetic machinery on rubber particles from Hevea brasiliensis

S Yamashita, H Yamaguchi, T Waki, Y Aoki, M Mizuno… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
Natural rubber (NR) is stored in latex as rubber particles (RPs), rubber molecules
surrounded by a lipid monolayer. Rubber transferase (RTase), the enzyme responsible for …

The sucrose transporter HbSUT3 plays an active role in sucrose loading to laticifer and rubber productivity in exploited trees of Hevea brasiliensis (para rubber tree)

C Tang, D Huang, J Yang, S Liu, S Sakr… - Plant, cell & …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Efficient sucrose loading in rubber‐producing cells (laticifer cells) is essential for retaining
rubber productivity in Hevea brasiliensis, but the molecular mechanisms underlying the …