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 ...

TOKYO (Feb. 22, 2016) — Bridgestone Corp. claims its researchers, in cooperation with Indonesian authorities and university researchers, have developed a technique for identifying a disease that ...

TOKYO—Bridgestone Corp. claims its researchers, in cooperation with Indonesian authorities and university researchers, have developed a technique for identifying a disease that threatens to decimate ...

Catheters, medical and sporting gloves, tires, condoms and some 50,000 other products depend on the more than 15 million tons of natural rubber produced every year, a researcher at Ohio State studying ...

The Sonoran Desert of southwest Arizona is the hottest desert in the United States. The climate is severe, delivering an extreme contrast between aridity and moisture thanks to its warm subtropical ...

For more than a decade, Jody Scott tended shrubs in a dry field in southern Arizona. A lifelong farmer of myriad crops, Scott calls this the most boring thing he’s ever grown. And growing it, he said, ...

One of San Diego’s unlikeliest industries, the production of natural rubber, has bounced back into town. Yulex, a rubber producer that moved its headquarters from Carlsbad to Phoenix in 2007, is ...

Catheters, medical and sporting gloves, tires, condoms and some 50,000 other products depend on the more than 15 million tons of natural rubber produced every year, a researcher at Ohio State studying ...