Dandelion Root Latex

Sea of dandelions. Every year there are more and more of them!

• See related page Rubber from Dandelions
• Ohio State University is developing rubber from Russian Dandelion roots. http://www.oardc.ohio-state.edu/…/OARDC_Impacts_-_Local,_Re…. The USDA germplasm repository can provide seeds to farmer scientists - variety of Dandelion is Taraxacum kok-saghyz. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78rc9WlByyA. Dr. Fred Michel at Ohio State University-OARDC is doing this work, with Dr. Katrina Cornish as project director.
• Another good article on challenges, and how the Man is tight lipped about the practice. Another call for open source science, please. This will be good for the open source nursery and breeding program. Opensourcing of breeding and extraction techniques is in order for achieving distributed economies.

Links

• http://uk.reuters.com/article/2014/08/20/us-dandelion-rubber-idUKKBN0GK0LN20140820
• http://www.ars-grin.gov/