The genetic diversity of cacao and its utilization /

• Main Author: Bartley, B. G. D. (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2005.
• Subjects: Cacao > Utilization.; Cacao > Germplasm resources.; Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000); Plant Breeding and Genetics.; Biological Resources (Plant); Molecular Biology and Molecular Genetics, (Discontinued March 2000, Reinstated and Revised June 2002); Theobroma cacao.; Cocoa.; Conservation.; Evolution.; Genetic diversity.; Genetic markers.; Inheritance.; Plant genetic resources.; Electronic books.
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The cacao (Theobroma cacao) plant is an important Neo-Tropical species whose natural habitat is the Amazon basin. Over the last 30 years there has been a considerable geographical expansion in the availability of cacao genetic resources. As a result the plant has a rich genetic diversity that exists...

Table of Contents:

• The Background to the Subject : Concepts and a Brief History
• The Terminology Specific to Cacao
• The Indicators of Variability
• The Manifestation of the Diversity and its Conservation
• The Foundations of the Diversity
• The Cultivated Populations as Secondary Depositories of the Diversity
• The Genetics of the Diversity
• The Relationships among Populations
• The Utilization of the Genetic Resources
• Epilogue.