Empirical Investigation of RRIM Clone Series Identification Based on Visible Spectrum Using Spectrometer

Abstract

According to the rapidity of rubber tree sector, the demand of rubber manufacturing product is rising and expected to continue increase all over the world. Thus, the identification of rubber tree clone is important in order to increase the productivity of latex and it is going to be large investment for farmer in rubber tree plantation. There are at least five RRIM clone that have been selected according to Malaysia Rubber Board suggestion. The characteristic of these clones will be examined based on its visible light spectrum properties using MCS 600 spectrometer. Then, the inference analysis of the relationship between color spectrum properties of rubber tree clones and latex are obtained statistically in this work. Therefore, the outcomes of this work have concluded that the proposed technique is able to use for differentiate various rubber tree clones.