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    Hevea brasiliensis, the Pará rubber tree, sharinga tree, seringueira, or most commonly, rubber tree or rubber plant, is a flowering plant belonging to...
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    Jean Baptiste Christophore Fusée Aublet first described Hevea as a genus in 1775. H. brasiliensis and H. guianensis are large trees, often reaching more...
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    harvested mainly in the form of the latex from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) or others. The latex is a sticky, milky and white colloid drawn off...
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  • medium-density tropical hardwood obtained from the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), usually from trees grown in rubber plantations. Rubberwood is commonly...
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    but some, especially in the tropics, are shrubs or trees, such as Hevea brasiliensis. Some, such as Euphorbia canariensis,: 206  are succulent and resemble...
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    II—as an emergency source of rubber when supplies of rubber from Hevea brasiliensis in Southeast Asia were threatened. The United States, the UK, Germany...
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    rubber, but it should not be confused with the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), the sap of which is the main commercial source of latex for rubber...
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  • called Microcyclus ulei, ended the cultivation of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) in South America. On leaf tissue, symptoms of blight are the initial...
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  • increasing number of enslaved people. Plantings of the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) are usually called plantations. Oil palm agriculture rapidly expands...
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  • 1866. It is known from Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. It feeds on Hevea brasiliensis, Pinus patula, Spathodea campanulata, Araucaria cunninghamii, and...
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    exudes sticky resin which deters attackers whereas in rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) it is a milky latex that oozes out. The quinine bark tree (Cinchona...
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  • Croton lanjouwensis Hevea Hevea brasiliensis Müll.Arg. - Pará rubber tree or Seringueira Hura Hura crepitans L. (= Hura brasiliensis Wild.) Manihot Manihot...
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  • environments and temperatures. Natural rubber, coming from latex of Hevea brasiliensis, is mainly poly-cis-isoprene. Synthetic rubber, like other polymers...
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  • professor noted for developing natural rubber-producing alternatives to hevea brasiliensis. Cornish earned her B.Sc. with 1st class honors in 1978 at the University...
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    cassava, tea, with economical importance on the para rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis). Rigidoporus lignosus (klotzsch) Imazeki, the causal agent of white...
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    II for plantations of teak (Tectona grandis), coffee, and rubber (Hevea brasiliensis), which were unsuitable habitats for wildlife. The Javan rusa, the...
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  • increase the disease resistance and improve the growth qualities of Hevea brasiliensis. "Hevea pauciflora". Useful tropical plants. Retrieved 26 March 2017....
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    seedlings and information about scientific farming methods. After Hevea brasiliensis was sent to Aburi from Kew in 1893, the gardens also encouraged rubber...
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    Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) South and Central America USA Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) Brazil England Hoodia plant (Hoodia gordonii) Southern Africa CSIR...
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    disease. This is the first time that the pathogen was found instead of Hevea brasiliensis. Ceylon breadfruit is an evergreen plant with about 25m height. The...
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    also have cross-allergic reactions to latex sap from the related Hevea brasiliensis plant. The toxicity of raw castor beans is due to the presence of...
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    demonstrates the use of Pueraria phaseoloides in the protection of Hevea brasiliensis. Nymph, Sabah, Borneo Adult female, Marina Bay, Singapore Female (larger)...
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    gene name: HEV1) is a wound-induced and a lectin-like protein from Hevea brasiliensis (rubber tree) where it is involved in the coagulation of latex. The...
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    from the bark of the cork oak. Rubber is obtained from the trunks of Hevea brasiliensis. Rattan, used for furniture and baskets, is made from the stems of...
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    agriculture and was a pioneer in the cultivation of rubber trees (Hevea brasiliensis) imported from Brazil into Indochina. For this purpose, he obtained...
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  • Lanka. Larval host plants are Cocos nucifera, Elaeis guineensis, Hevea brasiliensis and Punica granatum. "Species Details: Acanthopsyche cana Hamspon...
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    2006, Purkarthofer et al. found that (S)-hydroxynitrile lyase from Hevea brasiliensis catalyzes the formation of (S)-β-nitro alcohols. In 2011, Fuhshuku...
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    (Solanum tuberosum) 4. Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia) 5. Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) 6. Cacao (Theobroma cacao) 7. Tobacco (Nicotiana rustica)...
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    Latex foam in mattresses is generally a blend of the latex of the Hevea brasiliensis tree and synthetic latex, which is derived from petrochemicals and...
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  • environment. Before commercial exploitation of latex-bearing trees such as Hevea brasiliensis in the Amazon Basin and Funtumia elastica in the Congo, native populations...
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