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The Amazon rubber industry collapsed almost overnight. In 1876 the English botanist Henry Wickham shipped 70,000 Hevea seeds to the Royal Botanic Gardens in London. New strains of Hevea were developed that produced three to four times as much mbber and were more disease-resistant than their wild Amazonian cousins. Soon, seedlings were sent to Malaya, Java, and other islands of the East Indies. Thirty-five years later, rubber plantations on these islands took control of the industry. 

Cannon, J. and M. Cannon (1994), Dye Plants and Dyeing, Royal Botanic Gardens, London. 

Jodrell Laboratory, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 3DS, UK, and School of Biological Sciences, University of Sussex, Palmer, Brighton, BN1 9QG, UK. 

MELANIE JAYNE HOWES Jodrell Laboratory Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Richmond, Surrey TW9 3DS United Kingdom... 

Sprent, J. I. and McKey, D. 1994. Advances in Legume Systematics. Part 5. The Nitrogen Factor. Kew The Royal Botanic Gardens. 

Wollenweber, E. and Valant-Vetschera, K.M., New results with exudate flavonoids in Compositae, in Compositae Systematics, vol. 1. Proceedings of the International Compositae Conference, Kew, 1994, D.J.N. Flind and FI.J. Beentje, Eds., Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1996. 

Guillaume-Franeois Rouelle, 1703—1770. Parisian apothecary. Former inspector-general of die pharmacy at the City Hospital. Demonstrator in chemistry at the Royal Botanical Garden. Member of the Royal Academies of Science of Paris and Stockholm and of the Electoral Academy of Erfurt. Born in the village of Mathieu two leagues from Caen September 16, 1703, died at Passy Aug. 3, 1770. (Translated from the French caption on the frame.) See also ref. (62). 

Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh Edinburgh, United Kingdom... 

K. ten Kate and S. A. Laird, Placing Access and Benefits-sharing in the Commercial Context, Summary Report of Phase I, World Resources Institute and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK, 1997. 

Millennium Seed Bank Project, Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London, www.kew.org/msbp/index.htm, accessed 23 April 2009. 

Herendeen, PS. and Dilcher, D.L. (1992) Advances in Legume Systematics, Part 4, The Fossil Record. The Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. 

K. Ten Kate and A. Wells, Benefit-Sharing Case Study. The access and benefitsharing policies of the United States National Cancer Institute a comparative account of the discovery and development of the drugs Calanolide and Topotecan. Submission to the Executive Secretary of the Convention on Biological Diversity by the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, 1998. 

Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh, Great Britain... 

Oldridge, S. G., D. N. Pegler, and B. M. Spooner. 1989. Wild Mushrooms and Toadstool Poisoning. Kew, U.K. Royal Botanic Gardens Publications. 

Milliken, W. Miller, R.P. Pollard, S.R. Wandelli, E.V. The ethnobotany of the Waimiri Atroari Indians of Brazil, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew, 1992. 

M Costantino Royal Bank of Scotland, UK D F Cutler Royal Botanic Gardens, UK... 

Pimenov, M.G. and Leonov, M.V. (1993). The genera of Umbelliferae, Royal Botanical Gardens, Kew. 

Prior to the official edict creating the garden, Guy de la Brosse, one of Louis XIII s physicians, received permission for creating a royal botanical garden in 1626, and the land in 1633. 

Burkill, H.M. 1985. The Useful Plants of West Tropical Africa (A-D) , 2 Ed. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Whitefriars Press Ltd, Towbridge, Kent. 

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