Biology of Hevea Rubber
Biology of Hevea Rubber

Author: P. M. Priyadarshan

Publisher: CABI

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 1845936663

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Rubber is an economically important material that occurs naturally, with the world consuming around ten million tons of natural rubber every year. While it can be produced artificially, the different characteristics of synthetic rubber are not always suitable for the needs we have, making the Hevea brasiliensis tree an essential resource. Many advances have been made in the understanding of the cultivation and biology of the rubber tree, and this book covers the crucial elements of rubber breeding and physiology to provide a comprehensive guide to this vital crop. It provides an in-depth analysis of plant structure and crop physiology, climatic requirements, latex production, genetics and breeding, biotechnology, molecular biology, stress factors, soil tillage and crop establishment, nutrition, weed control, ancillary income generation and clean development management. Exploring an industry that spans three continents, this book is an invaluable resource for practitioners and researchers of rubber cultivation and latex production.

Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber
Brazil and the Struggle for Rubber

Author: Warren Dean

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-07-04

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521526920

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Brazil once enjoyed a near monopoly in rubber when the commodity was gathered in the wild. By 1913, however, cultivated rubber in South-east Asia swept the Brazilian gathered product from the market. In this innovative study, Warren Dean demonstrates that environmental factors have played a key role in the many failed attempts to produce a significant rubber crop again in Brazil. In the Amazon attempts to shift to cultivated rubber failed repeatedly. Brazilian social and economic conditions have been blamed for these failures, in particular the failure of local capitalists and the refusal of the working class to accept wage labour. Dean shows in this study, however, that the difficulty was mainly ecological: the rubber tree in the wild lives in close association with a parasitic leaf fungus; when the tree was planted in close stands, the blight appeared in epidemic proportions.

The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree
The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree

Author: Thomas Petch

Publisher:

Published: 1921

Total Pages: 312

ISBN-13:

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General sanitation. Root diseases. Leaf diseases. Phytophthora diseases. Stem diseases. Non-parasitic diseases, abnormalites, etc. Prepared rubber. Pests of Hevea. Miscellanea. Fungi on Hevea.