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THIS is a most notable addition to books on the diseases of tropical crop plants. Since Petch's “The Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree” (1921) and Steinmann's “Diseases and Pests of Hevea brasiliensis” (1925) were published, there has been great activity in investigating, in a more detailed manner than was formerly possible, the major diseases to which the rubber tree in the Eastern plantations is prone. Nowhere has this activity been more pronounced or more productive of striking results than at the Rubber Research Institute of Malaya, to which the author of the present book was seconded as head of the Pathological Division in 1931, after being Government mycologist in the Department of Agriculture for many years.
Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree
By Arnold Sharples. Pp. xvii + 480 + 4 plates. (London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1936.) 25s. net.
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BROOKS, F. Diseases and Pests of the Rubber Tree. Nature 138, 661–662 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138661a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138661a0
