Introduction in culture of new kinds of wild-growing plants. Gvajula

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As the Effective example serves gvajula - a bush, related to a dandelion and growing in desert Sonora in Mexico and in some droughty areas of the southwest USA.

This hardy plant develops considerable quantities of the rubber postponed in the form of particles, in it kortikalnyh cages. Gvajula - it was known to the American Indian tribes living in Mexico and Central America to Columbus; Indians chewed this plant, allocating from its fibres rubber of which they did small rubber balls for the games reminding football and basketball.

During the Second World War when Japan has grasped Malay peninsula and almost has completely deprived of the USA possibility to receive geveju from which the rubber was extracted, the extreme rubber project for the purpose of transformation gvajuly in a cultural plant has been created. having spent the big means and having used all available scientific personnel and agricultural workers, it was possible to transform this wild-growing bush into productive enough source of rubber which are grown up on plantations quickly. But then business has been suddenly stopped, when in the middle of war have learnt to receive synthetic rubber from oil products. However now, when oil products becomes a little, and the price for them constantly grows also the increasing value the problem of use of the renewed resources which are not polluting environment, cultivation gvajuly gets again it is represented worthy. From storehouses old stocks of seeds are taken, new plantations are put, methods of fabric cultures for studying of production of rubber are used and absolutely new approach to potentially useful cultural plant is created. As gvajula well grows on the earths, not especially suitable for any other agricultural crops, it is possible to believe that it becomes again economically valuable culture.