UK startup raises £3.4m to grow sustainable rubber from dandelions
UKI2S, managed by Future Planet Capital, and Sustainable Ventures back the engineering biology platform behind dandelion rubber.
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- Raised in grant funding and equity
- £3.4m
- Defra backing for the QuBOOSTR programme
- £2.4m
- Annual gap between supply and demand
- 1M t
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John Innes Centre wins Defra funding for crop innovations
Defra's Farming Innovation Programme backs crop innovation at Norwich Research Park, including the precision breeding project QuberTech leads.
Gene-edited dandelions to produce rubber
The Times looks at the crop science behind rubber that does not come from a rubber tree.
QuberTech pioneers new natural rubber source from dandelions
A profile of the company, the crop and the reason a Norwich business is working on a tropical commodity.
A natural rubber alternative in dandelion roots
WTiN sets out what an alternative source of natural rubber would mean for the industries that buy it.
The looming crisis of natural rubber
Halcyon Agri's chief executive sets out the supply picture from inside the industry.
A summary of the natural rubber issues
Euronews on why the global rubber market was heading for shortages, and what that means downstream.
Dr Meir joins the Enterprise Tuesday panel at Norwich Research Park
QuberTech's chief executive on the panel for Enterprise Tuesday, on opening research platforms to innovative businesses.
BBC Future on the wonder material we are running out of
The piece that states the problem better than any market report: natural rubber has no adequate substitute, and there is not enough of it.
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