Global confectionery giants embrace lab-grown and plant-based alternatives as climate change and economic pressures devastate ...
The beans of Theobroma cacao are used to make chocolate and other products, but these plants are threatened by increased drought associated with climate change. Researchers identified microbes in ...
If DNA sequencing never held much relevance for you, consider the benefits likely to flow from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome. The Theobroma cacao plant is generally ...
The study of Theobroma cacao genetic diversity has progressed markedly with the advent of high-resolution molecular techniques. Researchers now utilise advanced genotyping methods to characterise the ...
Funding: This study was supported by the Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica y Estudios Avanzados (PROCIENCIA) funded by the Project through the Contract N° 026-2016-FONDECYT “Círculo de ...
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Cacao trees evolved around 10 million years ago, earlier than previously believed, new research shows. Considerable genetic variation might remain to be discovered among wild cacao populations, which ...
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