Not time to drag out//Production tires from dandelions will help to rescue rainforests

The increase in demand at natural rubber — the main raw materials for productions tires — threatens safety of rainforests and biodiversity preservation in Southeast Asia. Use of the alternative raw materials received from roots of a dandelion which can be grown up in large quantities in a temperate climate that will in addition lower logistic costs and emissions of greenhouse gases can become a solution. Though early experience of productions oduvanchikovy rubber in the USSR terminated in failure, development technologies genetic engineering is capable to provide to the project profitability...