"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." The rubber tree plant, which is also known as ficus elastica, is native to Southeast Asia, Indonesia ...

MONARAGALA, Sri Lanka — Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. (GRI) has launched a "Greening Our Planet" initiative by planting 450 rubber trees in the natural rubber estates of ...

Rubber trees are essential for natural rubber, require precise nutrient management. Traditional methods for assessing nutrient levels are expensive and destructive, but near-infrared (NIR) ...

A research team developed and validated a liquid SNP chip named 'HbGBTS80K', which includes 80,080 SNPs evenly distributed across 18 chromosomes. This SNP chip effectively distinguished 404 rubber ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At home, these beauts boast large, dark green leaves and can be maintained as a medium-size houseplant or grown to impressive ...

AN important exhibition illustrating the fungal diseases to which the Para rubber-tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is subject in Ceylon and Malaya was opened on March 10 in the Botany Department of the ...

MONARAGALA, Sri Lanka—Specialty tire maker Global Rubber Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. has launched a "Greening Our Planet" initiative by planting 450 rubber trees in the natural rubber estates of ...

How would like to lie down on a bed of milky sap? No? What if you knew it came from organic rubber trees in Sri Lanka? While it sounds weird, milky sap from organic rubber trees actually turns into an ...