Progress Report on Rubber Seed Investigations.

Abstract

The literature on the storage of rubber, Hevea brasiliensis seed is reviewed. Details are given of a series of experiments intended to determine the optimum packing methods for the preservation of rubber seed viability. Germination figures are presented to show the changes in seed quality during different stages of the rubber seedfall, and in the clonal composition of seed produced in a young polyclonal rubber seed garden.