Michelin Hosts Seminar On Rubber Tree Parasites

In Brazil recently, Michelin hosted the world’s first research seminar on parasites that attack rubber trees (hevea) and which are threatening the rubber industry in Central and Latin America. Microcyclus Ulei is a parasite that attacks and eventually kills rubber trees and Michelin has set up a laboratory and research centre at its plantation in Bahia, Brazil, where 14 resistant varieties of hevea have been identified and are being tested..