Natural rubber biosynthesis in plants, the rubber transferase complex, and metabolic engineering progress and prospects

S Cherian, SB Ryu, K Cornish - Plant biotechnology journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Natural rubber (NR) is a nonfungible and valuable biopolymer, used to manufacture~ 50
000 rubber products, including tires and medical gloves. Current production of NR is derived …

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 …

Metabolic engineering for enhanced oil in biomass

T Vanhercke, JM Dyer, RT Mullen, A Kilaru… - Progress in lipid …, 2019 - Elsevier
The world is hungry for energy. Plant oils in the form of triacylglycerol (TAG) are one of the
most reduced storage forms of carbon found in nature and hence represent an excellent …

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 …

Identification of a new class of lipid droplet-associated proteins in plants

PJ Horn, CN James, SK Gidda, A Kilaru… - Plant …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Lipid droplets in plants (also known as oil bodies, lipid bodies, or oleosomes) are well
characterized in seeds, and oleosins, the major proteins associated with their surface, were …

Molecular mechanisms of natural rubber biosynthesis

S Yamashita, S Takahashi - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Natural rubber (NR), principally comprising cis-1, 4-polyisoprene, is an industrially important
natural hydrocarbon polymer because of its unique physical properties, which render it …

Biochemical composition of Hevea brasiliensis latex: A focus on the protein, lipid, carbohydrate and mineral contents

C Bottier - Advances in Botanical Research, 2020 - Elsevier
The latex collected from the Hevea brasiliensis tree is today the only commercial source of
natural rubber (NR), the cis-1, 4-polyisoprene polymer, a strategic raw material. The Hevea …

Transcriptome analysis reveals novel features of the molecular events occurring in the laticifers of Hevea brasiliensis (para rubber tree)

JH Ko, KS Chow, KH Han - Plant Molecular Biology, 2003 - Springer
Abstract Latex of Hevea brasiliensis (Willd. ex A, Juss.) Mull. Arg.(Brazilian rubber tree)
contains 30–50%(w/w) of natural rubber (cis-1, 4-polyisoprene), which is an important raw …

Hevea brasiliensis REF (Hev b 1) and SRPP (Hev b 3): An overview on rubber particle proteins

K Berthelot, S Lecomte, Y Estevez, F Peruch - Biochimie, 2014 - Elsevier
This review article aims to gather all the knowledge on two important proteins associated
with Hevea brasiliensis rubber particles: namely the rubber elongation factor (REF) and the …