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Parthenium argentatum Gray (Guayule): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Rubber and Other Secondary Metabolites

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Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IX

Part of the book series: Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry ((AGRICULTURE,volume 37))

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The genus Parthenium L. with its 17 recognized species is native to the western hemisphere, extending, with the exception of the tropics, from southern Bolivia and northern Argentina as far north as Massachusetts (Rollins 1950). Parthenium argentatum (Fig. 1), a member of the family Asteraceae, is the only species containing considerable amounts of rubber (Estilai et al. 1985).

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Trautmann, I.A., Spies, H.S.C. (1996). Parthenium argentatum Gray (Guayule): In Vitro Culture and the Production of Rubber and Other Secondary Metabolites. In: Bajaj, Y.P.S. (eds) Medicinal and Aromatic Plants IX. Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-08618-6_16

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