Rooting for new sources of natural rubber

• 来源期刊: 国家科学评论（英文版）
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（1）
• 页码范围: 89
• 页数: 1页
• 语种: 英文
• DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwx101c

摘要

Global production of natural rubber (NR) depends overwhelmingly on the Pará rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis),a slow-growing tropical tree that is threatened by low genetic diversity and high susceptibility to fungal blight [1].Alternative rubber sources have been sought for more than a century,but very few species have been found that produce rubber of comparable quality [2].