The short and forgotten history of rubber in Madagascar: The first controversy between biodiversity conservation and natural resource exploitation [PDF]
, 2016 From 1891 to 1914, Madagascar was producing forest rubber for export to Europe. Although Madagascar's contribution to the world rubber market was very modest, this episode had major consequences for the island's ecology.
Danthu, Pascal +5 more
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Industrial Crops and ProductsGuayulins, a family of sesquiterpenes derived from the resin of Parthenium argentatum, A. Gray (guayule), hold promise for stimulating the industrial cultivation of this shrub in European semiarid regions.
Iván Rodríguez-Barrios +7 more
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Integrated techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment of emerging technologies with temporal resolution [PDF]
, 2020 2020 Fall.Includes bibliographical references.Techno-economic analysis (TEA) and life cycle assessment (LCA) are analytical tools used to quantify the economic and environmental performance of emerging technologies. TEA and LCA help guide the development
Sproul, Evan
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Improvement value of forest resources by use of cottonseed protein meal as a bio-based wood adhesive for hardwood plywood products [PDF]
, 2022 Literature shows that production of cottonseed adhesives is feasible to develop an environmentally friendly and competitive bio-based wood adhesive. Defatted cottonseed and water-washed cottonseed meals were prepared from glandless cottonseed and were ...
Entsminger, Edward David
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Guayule plant extracts as binder modifiers in flexible (asphalt) pavement mixtures [PDF]
, 2018 The guayule (pronounced, \u27why-YOO-lee\u27) plant is a woody perennial shrub that is native to areas of the southwestern United States and northern Mexico, and is a well-documented source of high-quality natural rubber. The U.S. needs a domestic source
Lusher, Steven Michael
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When Madagascar produced natural rubber: a brief, forgotten yet informative history. [PDF]
, 2013 From 1891 to 1914, Madagascar, like other western African countries, was a production zone for forest rubber destined for export to Europe when Asian plantations where not yet sufficiently developed .
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Development of guayule (Parthenium argentatum A. Gray) in the South of France after the EU-PEARLS project [PDF]
, 2019 Research activities on guayule started in France and Morocco in the 1980's and again in 2008 with the European project, EU-PEARLS. Guayule research activities continued in France with the implementation of several experimental fields supervised by CIRAD ...
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Decomposition of Guayule Resins by Microorganisms [PDF]
Journal of Bacteriology, 1944 P J, Allen, J, Naghski, S R, Hoover
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NASA patent abstracts bibliography: A continuing bibliography. Section 1: Abstracts (supplement 23) [PDF]
s are cited for 129 patents and patent applications introduced into the NASA scientific and technical information system during the period January 1983 through June 1983.
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Effect of Non-Rubber Constituents on Guayule and Hevea Rubber Intrinsic Properties [PDF]
, 2016 To meet the increasing demand for natural rubber (NR), currently sourced from the tropical rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis, and address price volatility and steadily increasing labor costs, alternate rubber-producing species are in commercial development.
Cornish, Katrina +2 more
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