TY - BOOK AU - Lai Van Lam AU - Tran Trung Hai TI - Crown budding: Prospects and early results in Vietnam PY - 1993/// PB - Indian Journal of Natural Rubber Research KW - Crown budding KW - Hevea KW - Vietnam N2 - Seven crown budding trials conducted at Rubber Research Institute of Vietnam have shown that crown could exert influence on the trunk clone: both positive and negative. Important trunk characters modified by crown clones are vigour, yield, diseases and latex characteristics. A proposal is made to adopt corwn diversified three-part-plants for commercial planting so as to make use of the beneficial effects of crown on trunk ER -