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  The genus Hevea - botanical aspects

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080915 | 20080915 | | 1992 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:31948

Description: The first botanical description of the genus Hevea and of the type species H. guianensis was by Fusee Aublet (1775). The generic name Siphonia was proposed by L.C. Richard in 1779 as the equivalent of… More

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  Book review: The river that God forgot

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080116 | 20080116 | | 1969 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:36138

Description: The subtitle is the Story of the Amazon Rubber Boom, although it concentrates on the Rio Putumayo sector. This was the territory of Julio Cesar Arana, who remained its virtual dictator even when his e… More

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  Breeding by genetic transplants, pigmy trees and record yields. (Correspondence)

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080116 | 20080116 | | 1969 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:36082

Description: Recent enquiries probably stem from press comments on some of the contributions to and discussions during the Natural Rubber Conference, Kuala Lumpur, August-September 1968.

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  Floods, development and conservation

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080116 | 20080116 | | 1971 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:36826

Description: Government and people have compassionately relieved the victims of the recent floods. It is now time to consider dispassionately how floods are caused while their effects are still evident and fresh i… More

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  Hevea seed. Part I

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080116 | 20080116 | | 1971 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:36605

Description: The Para Rubber Tree, Hevea brasiliensis, was originally brought from South America to Kew as seed. Until 1917 Hevea was almost entirely propagated by seed and even after the advent of budding, the ro… More

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  Introduction of hevea to the orient

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20080116 | 20080116 | | 1968 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:36329

Description: Richard Spruce (1817-93), a Yorkshire school master, sailed to Brazil in 1849 to begin one of the epics of botanical exploration. He collected plant specimens throughout the Amazon basin until 1855, w… More

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  Malaysian meteorological means

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050713 | 20050830 | | 1971 |

Subject: Confidential Report

Type: Report

Identifier: vital1:57305

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  Hevea reminiscences

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050617 | 20050617 | | 1976 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:33852

Description: The arrival of 1,919 seedlings, at Colombo on 13 September 1876 was the first eventually successful introduction of Hevea brasiliensis into Asia. This was celebrated by a conference 100 years and 3 mo… More

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  Productive biology in Malaysia

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050617 | 20070720 | | 1964 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:33640

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  The phenology of plants in the humid tropics

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050616 | 20050616 | | 1973 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:33565

Description: Meteorological phenomena (as indicated by cloudiness and hours of bright sunshine) reinforce or modify the relatively small differences in daylength which result from astronomical conditionsExamples o… More

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  Trunk-snap in Hevea brasiliensis

Authors: Wycherley PR | Buttery BR | Templeton JK

Date: 20050616 | 20070720 | | 1962 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:33234

Description: Interest in wind-damage has been stimulated at the Rubber Research Institute by the widespread loss of trees in commercial plantings of the high yielding clone RRIM 501 during the last few years. Typi… More

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  Why worry about Batu Caves?

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050615 | 20050615 | | 1968 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:33166

Description: In 1888 the State Treasurer, Mr. A.R. Yenning, previously a planter in Ceylon, persuaded the Resident in Selangor Mr. (later Sir) Frank Swettenham, who was not always easy to convince, that there was … More

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  The Singapore botanic gardens and rubber in Malaya

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20050113 | 20070719 | | 1959 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:28648

Description: NATURAL RUBBER PRODUCTION in Malaya and other tropical Asian countries depends upon the cultivation of Hevea brasiliensis. This tree was introduced into the East and its exploitation developed through… More

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  Reflections on Hevea propagation

Authors: Wycherley PR

Date: 20041229 | 20070720 | | 1961 | | | | | | |

Subject: PRRIM

Type: Article

Identifier: vital1:29864

Description: The peak yields of the original unselected seedling trees rarely exceeded 500 Ibs. per acre, however it was noted that the contributions of the different trees varied greatly. For instance in a seedli… More

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  Grasses in Malayan plantations

Authors: Wycherley PR | Ahmad Azli Mohd Yusof

Date: 20041006 | 20051026 | | 1974 | | | | | | |

Subject: Monographs & Manuals

Type: eBook

Identifier: vital1:27981

Description: The grasses form a very distinctive or ‘natural’ family of monocotyledonous flowering plants called the Gramineae. The Gramineae comprises two main groups: the tall, hardstemmed bamboos and the herbac… More

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