Guayule is a woody desert shrub that has a remarkable quality – the plant produces natural rubber, which makes it a viable, environmentally friendly, and sustainable alternative to the Pará ...

Rubber is a polymer made of latex, a substance naturally produced in the sap of a number of plants. Today, though, almost all of the world’s rubber supply comes from Hevea brasiliensis, also ...

Latex, also known as rubber or natural latex, is derived from the milky sap of the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis. Latex can be found in many household products and also in many medical and ...

Aztecs tapped the sap of Hevea brasiliensis much as American Indians bled sugar maples for their sweet syrup. But the hevea rubber tree yielded something quite inedible — a thick, milky liquid ...

In 1876, British traveler Henry Wickham stole a botanical treasure that changed the course of history. He made off with 70,000 seeds of Hevea brasiliensis, also known as the Para rubber tree.

These potential crops, however, still face several challenges before reaching commercial viability. There exists over 2,500 rubber producing plants. Yet, the world relies heavily on just one ...

A native of the Brazilian rainforest, the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis is no longer grown commercially in the country due to the prevalence of South American leaf blight, a catastrophic pathogen ...

An efficient and reproducible protocol for Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated genetic transformation and plant regeneration of Hevea brasiliensis with the gene coding for superoxide dismutase under ...

American Journal of Botany, Vol. 41, No. 1 (Jan., 1954), pp. 39-43 (5 pages) Growth was measured of the fruit, seed, embryo and seedling of the Para rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis. In general, it may ...

CLONES of Hevea brasiliensis are normally bud-grafted on seedling rootstocks. In an attempt to overcome the disadvantages inherent in this practice, the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya is ...

The problem is, almost all the natural rubber in the world comes from a single species of tree, Hevea brasiliensis, crops of which cannot be scaled up easily to meet future demand.

IT has recently been found in Malaya that the rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, when growing on certain soils, can accumulate sufficient boron to cause the appearance of boron toxicity symptoms on ...