Sequencing The Cacao Genome To Safeguard Chocolate
Sequencing The Cacao Genome To Safeguard Chocolate
18:47 26-06-2008; source: www.sciencedaily.com
During the past 15 years, the global cocoa industry has confronted a trio of devastating fungal diseases that cost growers an estimated $700 million in losses annually. Now scientists at the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Subtropical Horticultural Research Station (SHRS) in Miami, Fla., are developing productive cacao (Theobroma cacao) trees resistant to these diseases: witches' broom, frosty pod and black pod.
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