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IN recent years the importance of bacteria in limiting the effective yield of polyisoprene from Hevea brasiliensis has been described1. Further, the highly desirable stability and very low content of volatile fatty acids of sterile latex have been fully established2. Up to 1960, the apparatus for the extraction of sterile latex was costly, but recently I have used simple polythene ‘hoods’ to enclose the tapping panel, so that antibacterial atmospheres could be maintained during tapping.
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TAYSUM, D. Effect of Ethylene Oxide on the Tapping of Hevea brasiliensis. Nature 191, 1319–1320 (1961). https://doi.org/10.1038/1911319a0
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