Year: 2016
Pages: 323-333
Number: Volume 8, issue 4
Type: scientific article
This review focuses on the perspective for cultivation in Russia rubber plant Taraxacum kok-saghyz. This plant is extensively cultivated in the 30-40-ies of XX century in the Soviet Union as a rubber plant No 1. In those years, kok-saghyz was very well studied by Soviet scientists and practitioners of agriculture. For 15 years cultivating of kok-saghyz managed to significantly improve its yield and were created cultivars of this plant. In the Soviet era have been developed main agrotechnical methods of cultivation of this plant and the industrial production of domestic natural rubber. In response to growing global demand for natural rubber in the XXI century there is a new surge of interest to the kok-saghyz, primarily in Western Europe and North America. On the basis of import substitution and resource security reasons, the idea of returning to the culture of kok-saghyz in Russia also appears to be very relevant. The cultivation of kok-saghyz in the USSR was discontinued due to the emergence of new technologies for the production of synthetic rubber, as well as the relatively low profitability. However, the use of modern science and technology achievements can provide the economic feasibility of commercial cultivation of kok-saghyz in Russia.
natural rubber, Taraxacum kok-saghyz, hydroponics, aeroponics, genetically modified plants, transgenic plants