LN: Czechs cultivate plant that may replace rubber trees

Prague, May 17 (CTK) - Czech botanists have cultivated a new plant, a hybrid of "kok-saghyz" from Kazakhstan and other Asian dandelions, that can potentially replace dying rubber trees afflicted by mould, the daily Lidove noviny (LN) reports Tuesday. The new dandelion, cultivated at the Botanical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences (AV), is bigger and has a stronger root than the original

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