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IN recent years there has been a great deal of interest in the study of rubber-bearing plants that will grow in temperate and sub-temperate climates in connexion with the possibility of establishing sources of supply of natural rubber independent of the tropics. Russian workers have been the pioneers in this field, and it is in the U.S.S.R. that the most noteworthy developments have taken place. The published accounts of this work (mainly in Russian) are unfortunately difficult of access, especially at the present time. It is fitting, therefore, that a comprehensive summary (in English) should now have appeared, with special emphasis on what is so far known of the genetics of the plants concerned and what breeding work has so far been carried out with them*.
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Russian Rubber Plants. Nature 155, 229–230 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155229a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/155229a0