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SUBMITTER: Harrison RD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5599632 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Harrison Rhett D RD Chong Kwek Yan KY Pham Nguyet Minh NM Yee Alex T K ATK Yeo Chow Khoon CK Tan Hugh T W HTW Rasplus Jean-Yves JY
Scientific reports 20170914 1
Ficus elastica, otherwise known as India Rubber (although its geographical origins are unclear), was an important source of latex in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century and was widely cultivated in tropical Asia. Like all figs, F. elastica is dependent on tiny, highly specific wasps for pollination, and detailed studies based out of Singapore in the 1930s suggested that through the loss of its pollinator F. elastica was extinct in the wild. However, around 2005 wild seedlings of F. elastica began ...[more]