Tapping, Latex Yield and Carbon Budget of the Rubber Tree

3 Tapping, Latex Yield and Carbon Budget of the Rubber Tree 

Inside laticifer vessels, the sucrose content drops sharply following tapping. Latex sucrose content indicates the balance between sugar uptake and utilization (catabolism to rubber). Crossing sucrose laticifer content with inorganic phosphorus content (K, indicator of latex metabolic activity) is the basis of 

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