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 ...

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.

On a trip to Belize more than a decade ago, she encountered cacao trees and learned how the Maya people processed the pods for chocolate. Now living on the Big Island of Hawaii, she says that ...

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). .

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.

Notes These are leaves and seed pods from a cacao tree. One seed pod is unopened and is entirely brown, while the other seed pod is vertically cut in half and has exposed white innards and dark brown ...

Cacao has long been a sought-after raw material for the worlds food industry. At first glance, it therefore seems surprising that biology knows little about the pollination of the cacao tree ...

Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per year. Yet, as worldwide demand ...

"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 ...