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Rubber is synthesized in over 7500 plant species, confined to 300 genera of seven families: Euphorbiaceae, Apocynaceae, Asclepiadaceae, Asteraceae, Moraceae, Papaveraceae and Sapotaceae (Backhaus 1985; Lewinsohn 1991; Cornish et al. 1993) (see Chap. 1 for other sources of rubber). Of late, scientists have started exploring the possibility of generating microorganisms that can produce rubber (Steinbüchel 2003). Euphorbiaceae family is extremely diverse and considered to be polyphyletic (Webster 1994). Hevea brasiliensis, the prime source of rubber, can survive for more than 100 years, and one such tree borne from the original nine seedlings brought over to Malaya in 1877 is still available (Fig. 3.1).

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Priyadarshan, P.M. (2017). Plant Structure and Ecophysiology. In: Biology of Hevea Rubber. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54506-6_3

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