Cacao grafting consists of implanting a shoot from a promising variety into an adult cacao tree. By making use of the adult root system, grafting young and fresh branches completely replaces the ...

Yet cacao trees, which are the source of chocolate, are vulnerable. I am a passionate chocolate lover and an entomologist who studies cacao pollination.

It sounds straightforward but, in fact, successful cacao pollination is problematic in many regions. Only around 10%-20% of the flowers produced by a cacao tree are successfully pollinated.

However, the cacao tree faces a number of threats, such as disease and climate change, but the study reports that knowing more about its genetic history and diversity will help scientists address ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising find from the Amazon Basin: three new species of plants closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that gives us chocolate. This finding, made by examining ...

According to a new study published in the journal 'PLoS ONE,' between 15% and 50% of the harvest of cocoa trees in Ghana has been lost due to cacao swollen shoot virus disease (CSSSVD). .

"At To'ak, our passions go far beyond making high-quality chocolate,” says To'ak CEO James Le Compte. "We care deeply about the preservation of the rare Nacional cacao tree, and for the first ...

These cacao trees grow the all-important cocoa beans used to create chocolate. Fifty percent of the chocolate in the world originates from cacao trees in West Africa, notably Côte d'Ivoire and Ghana.

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 ...

Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process. Communications Biology, 2018; 1 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s42003-018-0168-6 ...