Heat-shock transcription factors (Hsfs) play a pivotal role in the response of plants to various stresses. The present study aimed to characterize the Hsf genes in the rubber tree, a primary global source of natural rubber. In this study, 30 Hsf gene...
Tapping panel dryness (TPD), a complex physiological syndrome associated with the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.), causes cessation of latex drainage upon tapping and thus threatens rubber production. Rubber tree virus 1 (RTV1) is a nove...
Induced resistance by elicitors is considered to be an eco-friendly strategy to stimulate plant defense against pathogen attack. In this study, we elucidated the effect of salicylic acid (SA) on induced resistance in rubber tree against Phytophthora ...
In order to trace the research history of diseases and pests in rubber tree and explore the potential for their natural control, a bibliometric analysis was conducted based on relevant documents retrieved from the Clarivate Analytics Web of Science (...
Natural rubber produced by the rubber tree is a vital industrial raw material globally. Seven SCAMP gene family members were identified in the rubber tree, and the phylogenetic tree classified HbSCAMPs into three subfamilies. Significant differences...
Powdery mildew has become a significant disease affecting the yield and quality of rubber trees in recent years. It typically manifests on the leaf surface at an early stage, rapidly infecting and spreading throughout the leaves. Therefore, early det...
In order to induce unreduced pollens, microsporogenesis and male flower bud (MFB) development were compared in rubber tree clone RRIM 600. We observed strong asynchronism in different MFBs in an inflorescence. Asynchronism of microsporogenesis in dif...
Rubber trees in southern China are often impacted by natural disturbances, and accurate rubber tree crown segmentation and property retrieval are of great significance for forest cultivation treatments and silvicultural risk management. Here, three p...
Rubber tree is one of the essential tropical economic crops, and rubber tree powdery mildew (PM) is the most damaging disease to the growth of rubber trees. Accurate and timely detection of PM is the key to preventing the large-scale spread of PM. Re...
Powdery mildew significantly impacts the yield of natural rubber by being one of the predominant diseases that affect rubber trees. Accurate, non-destructive recognition of powdery mildew in the early stage is essential for the cultivation management...
Electrical tree is a serious threat to silicone rubber (SIR) insulation and can even cause breakdown. Electrical trees under alternating current (AC) and direct current (DC) voltage have been widely researched. While there are pulses in high-voltage...
Silicone rubber (SIR) is a crucial insulating material in cable accessories, but it is also susceptible to faults. In practical applications, mechanical pressure from bending or shrinking can impact the degradation of SIR, necessitating the study of...
Natural rubber is an important and strategic raw material, used in tires, gloves, and insulating products, that is mainly obtained by cutting the bark of rubber trees. However, the complex contour curve of the rubber tree trunk is hard to fit using a...
As a key tropical economic tree species, the girth of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) not only reflects its growth rate and timber yield but also determines tapping schedules and non-productive periods. This trait critically influences both the...
Rubber trees in southern China are often impacted by natural disturbances that can result in a tilted tree body. Accurate crown segmentation for individual rubber trees from scanned point clouds is an essential prerequisite for accurate tree paramete...
Leaf litter plays a major role in carbon and nutrient cycling, as well as in fueling food webs. The chemical composition of a leaf may directly and indirectly influence decomposition rates by influencing rates of biological reactions and by influenci...
Accurate individual tree segmentation (ITS) in dense rubber plantations is a challenging task due to overlapping canopies, indistinct tree apexes, and intricate branch structures. To address these challenges, we propose a bottom-up, multi-feature fus...
Plant PP2C genes are crucial for various biological processes. To elucidate the potential functions of these genes in rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis), we conducted a comprehensive analysis of these genes using bioinformatics methods. The 60 members...
Melatonin (MT) can enhance plant stress tolerance by activating the internal defense system, but its application in rubber trees has been barely reported up to now. In this study, we found that the relative electrical conductivity (REC), H2O2, and ma...
Brassinosteroids (BRs) are important for plant growth and development, with BRI1 and BAK1 kinases playing an important role in BR signal transduction. Latex from rubber trees is crucial for industry, medicine and defense use. Therefore, it is benefic...
The yield and quality of rubber tree latex are affected by environmental stresses and plant hormone stimulation. Heat shock protein 90 (HSP90) is widely involved in various developmental processes and stress responses in plants, especially in drought...
Natural rubber is an important national strategic and industrial raw material. The leaf anthracnose of rubber trees caused by the Colletotrichum species is one of the important factors restricting the yields of natural rubber. In this study, we isola...
The precise acquisition of phenotypic parameters for individual trees in plantation forests is important for forest management and resource exploration. The use of Light-Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) technology mounted on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UA...
Powdery mildew is one of the most significant rubber tree diseases, with a substantial impact on the yield of natural rubber. This study aims to establish a detection approach that coupled continuous wavelet transform (CWT) and machine learning for t...
Rubber tree powdery mildew (PM) is one of the most devastating leaf diseases in rubber forest plantations. To prevent and control PM, timely and accurate detection is essential. In recent years, unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) remote sensing technology...
The growth in the volume of modern construction and the manufacture of reinforced concrete structures (RCSs) presents the goal of reducing the cost of building materials without compromising structures and opens questions about the use of environment...
Root rot diseases caused by Ganoderma pseudoferreum and Pyrrhoderma noxium inflict substantial economic losses in rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) cultivation, while conventional control methods face environmental and resistance challenges. This stud...
A homolog of MOTHER OF FT AND TFL1 (MFT) was isolated from Hevea brasiliensis and its biological function was investigated. Protein multiple sequence alignment and phylogenetic analysis revealed that HbMFT1 conserved critical amino acid residues to...
Brassinolide (BR) is an important plant hormone that regulates the growth and development of plants and the formation of yield. The yield and quality of latex from Hevea brasiliensis are regulated by phytohormones. The understanding of gene network r...
Utilization of local-based waste materials can be a challenge due to the resource’s limitations. This study investigated the utilization of rubber tree bark (RTB) as a reductant for mill scale. RTB was blended with coal into five ratios, namely RTB#1...
Long-term tracking tests revealed that the adaptive spiral profiling automatic rubber cutter is prone to “knife off” and “knife jumping” states during the cutting process. These issues result in inconsistent skin thickness and...
The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is an economically important crop in Thailand. Severe defoliation caused by emerging diseases has been reported to substantially reduce rubber yields during the leaf fall phase. The classical disease dispersal pat...
Powdery mildew, caused by Erysiphe quercicola, is one of the primary diseases responsible for the reduction in natural rubber production in China. This disease is a typical airborne pathogen, characterized by its ability to spread via air currents an...
Girth growth is an important factor in both latex and timber production of the rubber tree. In this study, we performed candidate gene association mapping for girth growth in rubber trees using intron length polymorphism markers (ILP) in identifying...
Tapping panel dryness (TPD) syndrome is one of the latex yield affecting factors in the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Mull. Arg.). Therefore, identification of a DNA marker will be highly useful for screening progenies in breeding programs. The maj...
Eight triploids were screened among offspring of the rubber tree clone GT1 × different clones by flow cytometry and chromosome counting. Twenty-five simple sequence repeat (SSR) markers were screened to identify the origin of 2n gametes, to determine...
Powdery mildew is a serious disease of the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) worldwide. Temperature is the main climatic factor that influences the development of this disease. In this study, the effects of five high temperatures (30, 32, 34, 36, and...
Rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Muell. Arg.) is a major tropical cash crop in southern China, with Hainan and Yunnan provinces being the main planting areas. In July 2023, bark cracking and gumming were observed on the trunks of mature rubber trees i...
Valorizing natural resources through sustainable and eco-friendly processes is a cornerstone in pursuing a greener and more sustainable future. This study focuses on the green extraction of valuable compounds from rubber seed trees (Hevea brasiliensi...
ICE (inducer of CBF expression) is a positive regulator of cold signaling pathway in plants. Identification of ICE transcription factors is important for the sustainable development of the natural rubber planting industry in nontraditional regions wh...
The insulation property at high voltage frequencies has become a tough challenge with the rapid development of high-voltage and high-frequency power electronics. In this paper, the electrical treeing behavior of silicone rubber (SIR) is examined and...
P proteins encoded by SEOs (sieve element occlusion) have been shown to be associated with the blockage of sieve tubes after injury in many plants, but the presence of SEO genes and their association with rubber tree laticifer plugging and latex yiel...
ATP synthase is a key enzyme in photophosphorylation in photosynthesis and oxidative phosphorylation in respiration, which can catalyze the synthesis of ATP and supply energy to organisms. ATP synthase has been well studied in many animal species but...
The rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis) is a widely cultivated crop in tropical acidic soil that is tolerant to high concentration of aluminum and the aluminum-activated malate transporter (ALMT) plays an important role in plant aluminum detoxification....
Rigidoporus microporus, which causes white root rot disease (WRD) in Hevea brasiliensis, is a looming threat to rubber plantation in Malaysia. The current study was conducted to determine and evaluate the efficiency of fungal antagonists (Ascomycota)...
Anthracnose, caused by fungi of the genus Colletotrichum, is present in the major rubber tree crop areas in Brazil, especially in São Paulo, Mato Grosso do Sul, Paraná, Minas Gerais, Espírito Santo, and northern states. This dise...
Intercropping the sharp-leaf galangal with the rubber tree could help to improve the sustainability of the rubber tree planting industry. However, our understanding of belowground competition in such agroforestry systems is still limited. Therefore,...
Glutaredoxins (GRXs) are a class of small oxidoreductases which modulate various biological processes in plants. Here, we isolated a GRX gene from the rubber tree (Hevea brasiliensis Müll. Arg.), named as HbSRGRX1, which encoded 107 amino acid r...
This study presents an investigation of electrical tree performance as well as the effect of filler concentration of silicone rubber (SiR) filled with atmospheric-pressure plasma-treated silicon dioxide (SiO2) nanofiller. Atmospheric-pressure plasma...
Natural rubber is a crucial industrial material, and it is primarily harvested from the latex of the rubber tree Hevea brasiliensis by tapping the tree trunk. During the regular tapping process, mechanical damage seriously affects latex reproduction...
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