Yulex Corporation is the world leader in guayule crop science. Through Yulex’s advancements in selective breeding, biotechnology, herbicide development, cultivation best practices, harvesting best practices and equipment development, a new revolutionary clean tech industry based on guayule crop science has emerged.
Yulex is led by the world’s foremost experts in guayule science, engineering, business development and agronomy. This team of experts develops proprietary guayule-based technology to extract latex, bulk rubber, resin and other materials from guayule biomass for use in medical products, consumer products, industrial products and green energy production on a sustainable basis. The company licenses its technology to third parties and continues to attract a growing base of partners, each of whom are also leaders in their respective industries, to collaborate with on new research and development programs for green materials from guayule.
Yulex’s innovations to date include:
Identifying specific plant-growth regulators for guayule that allow farmers to increase biomass and latex production in less time.
Identifying and testing pre- and post-emergent herbicides to arm farmers with safer chemicals that will not damage other surrounding crops. The five herbicides registered by Yulex for guayule have gone through testing by state and federal governments as well as chemical companies and are now available to guayule growers to increase yield and lower input costs. To learn more about Yulex’s herbicide development, contact Yulex at ag@yulex.com.
Developing enabling technologies for increased guayule output traits such as genetic modification to produce high quality proprietary varieties of guayule lines that produce a greater latex and resin yield and are more resistant to abiotic stress.
Development of new patented harvesting equipment to increase efficiency and reduce harvest cost to speed time to market.
Establishing nutrient uptake and removal values for guayule in order to maximize latex and product yield.
And, since Yulex’s agriculture model for harvesting guayule is based on the cotton harvesting method, that’s proven effective for more than 100 years, making the transition from cotton to guayule is not difficult or costly for farmers.
