Researchers have succeeded in decoding the genome sequence for Hevea brasiliensis, the natural rubber tree native to Brazil. The study reports a draft genome sequence that covers more than 93 percent ...
The source tree for natural rubber, Hevea brasiliensis, is frequently affected by a bark necrosis syndrome, which has been observed since the 1980s. The disease leads to sharp falls in latex ...
PUERTO LOPEZ, COLOMBIA — As Walter Lopez carefully stripped a diagonal ribbon of bark from a rubber tree in eastern Colombia, white latex began dripping down the cut and into a miniature pail nailed ...
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Rubber plantations have been a main historical cause of tropical deforestation, and are generally responsible for a range of environmental and social ills. But rubber grown in agroforestry systems–in ...
Researchers at the RIKEN Center for Sustainable Resource Science (CSRS) in Japan along with collaborators at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) have succeeded in decoding the genome sequence for Hevea ...
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