guayule
- noun
- /ɡwaɪˈuːleɪ/
- Specialized
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guayule
- The shrub called guayule is cultivated for its ability to produce natural rubber from its sap.
- guayule latex
- guayule plants
Examples
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It is expected to be in use in a guayule display planned for next year at Disney's Epcot Center in Florida.
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Until this decade, most studies of guayule, Parthenium argentatum, dealt primarily with its rubber, which hasn't been produced commercially in this country since 1929.
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The team is apparently the first to use this approach successfully with guayule.
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The modified bacterium has the experimental genes inside and can slip them into guayule cells.
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This procedure, not yet reported by any other guayule researchers, causes little if any damage to guayule's young, fragile roots.
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The prototype, allergen-free latex products shown were made from guayule.
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In 1997, these researchers offered growers seed from guayule plants selected for fast growth and high latex content.
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Today's guayule plants are superior to those of the past, thanks to plant breeding by ARS and university scientists in Arizona.
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Cornish, with ARS at Albany, and agency colleagues in Phoenix, Arizona, explore new ways to make production of guayule latex practical, efficient, and profitable.
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Rubber from a native southwestern shrub called guayule (pronounced why-YOU-lee) may become a new source of high-quality, hypoallergenic latex for medical, industrial, and home products.
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Synonyms
A shrub with many branches, silvery leaves, and small white flowers grown for natural rubber
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Etymology
The word guayule comes from a native Mexican name for the small shrub that Spanish speakers took into Spanish and later into English. People used the plant because its sap makes 'natural rubber', so the name points to the plant and its useful rubber.