Review of the Existing Techniques for the Determination of Dry Rubber Content in Natural
Review of the Existing Techniques for the Determination of Dry Rubber Content in Natural
Hevea brasiliensis, a forest tree, which is indigenous to the tropical rain forests of Central and South America and the only major commercial source of natural rubber (NR), is one of the most recently domesticated crop species in the world. The modern age of NR in India actually started during the 1870s when the British successfully transported Hevea seeds from Brazil for planting in the then British India1.'. Rubber seems to be a fairly straightforward word. The French call it Caoutchouc recog