Bridgestone develops technology to detect rubber tree disease

摘要

Bridgestone has announced that it has developed a groundbreaking technique that can be used to easily, quickly, and accurately diagnose white root rot disease in rubber trees. Since 2010, the tyre company has been working with the Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology and a number of universities to develop a technology called the LAMP (Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification) Method, which can diagnose white root rot disease.