主旨:描述TKS 大意: 1. TKS is useful, can supplement or replace traditional rubber tree HB 2. Natural rubber is better than artificial rubber -. Regular structure -. Price (high oil price) 3. Natural rubber’s problems: hard to grow -. leaf blight disease -. Takes time smaller plant has appeal 4. One proposal: Guayule, but slow slow-growing, low fields TKS come in (dandelions, robust, fast-growing, if turned into usable crops, good) 5. Dr. SG identified genes that allow TKS to produce usable rubber, discovered P. 6. Plant’s point of view: coagulation is good. Human users view: don’t want coagulation too soon Dr SG found a way to switch P off so that rubber can be extracted more easily 7. Dr. K use the old-fashioned way to increasing the yield of rubber from TKS 8. Combine two ways may cause -. Produce a new crop species -. Return to the use of plant-based products |