Rubber trees are back. After years and years of virtual absence from the list of potted plant possibilities, they have started appearing in shopping malls and office buildings again. Perhaps it was ...

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 ...

Farmers can tap into the earning potential of rubber. Native to the rainforests of the Amazon in South America, these trees are generally found in low-altitude, wetlands, riparian zones, forest gaps ...

The popularity of Southern California’s most destructive curbside shade tree is starting to bounce back--thanks to rubber sidewalks. Leafy ficus trees have helped cool neighborhood roadsides for ...

Michael Fraley, a Vice President with Yulex Corporation, cuts a guayule plant that can be used to make natural rubber, in 2008 David Kadlubowski/Corbis Rubber can be made from the latex of several ...

Forty minutes south of Phoenix, just past the once-sleepy town of Maricopa and the last bit of suburban sprawl, the Arizona desert gives way to thousands of acres lined with row after row of funny ...

Recently, Binh Phuoc People’s Committee decided to the rubber tree as a symbolic image of the province that will be placed at the traffic circle in the Dong Xoai Town. It shows that rubber trees are ...

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 ...