Nature

Natural Rubber Biosynthesis in Hevea Brasiliensis

The rubber tree, Hevea brasiliensis, remains the primary commercial source of natural rubber, a versatile biopolymer with unique elasticity and resilience. Central to its economic importance is a ...
BBC

The wonder material we all need but is running out

Climate change, capitalism and disease are threatening to strike a mortal blow to the world's rubber trees. Do we need to find alternative sources of rubber before it's too late? Natural rubber is a ...
Nature

On the Plantation, Cultivation and Curing of Parà India-rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), with an Account of its Introduction from the West to the Eastern Tropics

MR. H. A. WICKHAM re-tells the interesting story of the successful effort of the Government of India with the aid of the Royal Gardens, Kew, to introduce the Para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) from ...
JSTOR Daily

Insights into rubber biosynthesis from transcriptome analysis of Hevea brasiliensis latex

Hevea brasiliensis is the most widely cultivated species for commercial production of natural rubber (cis-polyisoprene). In this study, 10 040 expressed sequence tags (ESTs) were generated from the ...
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Expression of the Hevea brasiliensis (H.B.K.) Müll. Arg. 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl-Coenzyme A Reductase 1 in Tobacco Results in Sterol Overproduction

A genomic fragment encoding one (HMGR1) of the three 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductases (HMGRs) from Hevea brasiliensis (H.B.K.) Müll. Arg. (M.-L. Chye, C.-T. Tan, N.-H. Chua [1992] ...