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ACU 85    Theobroma cacao

 Posnette, A.F. (1943)
Cacao selection on the Gold Coast. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 20: pp. 149-155.

Derivation: Aburi CUndeamor.
Collected by Posnette.
Location: Aburi Botanic Garden, Ghana.

Notes:  Selections made by Posnette, 1943 [POS43A] in the 'Cundeamor' plot planted with the 1906 introduction to the Aburi Botanic Garden. This material probabky came from Caracas (Glendinning) [LOC79A].

Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A]. These clones came from a shipment of Pentagona variety seeds from the West Indies that passed through Kew in 1900, which contained different shaped fruits. Tudhope (Dept. Agric. Ann. Rep. for 1911) says "..the variety named by me 'Cundeamor' because of its somewhat close resemblance in the colour and shape of the pods to the variety of that name in Ceylon is giving very promising results at Aburi".

The imported fruit would have probably been the result of hybridisation of a 'pentagona' with an unknown parent. The pentagona may have been one of the Nicaraguan criollo trees introduced to Trinidad a few years earlier or may have been supplied from the Dominica Botanic Garden.

The progenies from the seed of this tree were planted in a plot at Aburi between 1907 and 1910 and it would have been from this plot that Posnette made his selections.


 

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List received in 1985   Reference
• Local Name: ACU 85
List received in 1989   Reference
• Local Name: ACU 85
   - Year of Accession: 1962
 Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: ACU85

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12.78 % Infection (Pod).
Note: percentage of infected pods. Rank calculated using Newman-Keuls test at 5% = BC
 Sounigo, O. et al., 1995
Intermediate, sp. P. palmivora (Pod).
 Clement, D. & Sounigo, O., 1992
Moderately Susceptible, sp. P. palmivora (Leaf).
 Kebe, 1999
Tolerant, sp. P. palmivora (Pod).
 Enriquez, G. & Soria, V.J., 1977

High Damage
 N'Goran, J.A.K. et al., 1993
Resistant
 K. F. N’Guessan et al., 2003

Yield: 2388 kg ha-1 yr-1
 Reference

Posnette, A.F. (1943) Cacao selection on the Gold Coast. Tropical Agriculture (Trinidad) 20: pp. 149-155.
Cameroon - IRAD Cameroun (1985) Collection Camerounaise de cacaoyers (situation en Juillet, 1985). Unpublished report, IRCC Cameroun. Supplied by A.B. Eskes, IRCC Montpellier.
Cote d'Ivoire - IRCC (1989) Liste des clones en collection. Unpublished Report, IRCC Bingerville, Cote d'Ivoire, Doc. No. 192. D. Clement, IRCC, Cote d'Ivoire. Personal Communication.
CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
Sounigo, O., N'Goran, J., Coulibaly, N., Clement, D. & Lachenaud, P. (1995) Evaluation de clones de cacaoyers pour la productivite, la resistance aux mirides et la resistance a la pourriture des cabosses. In: Proceedings of the 11th International Cocoa Research Conference, Yammoussoukro, Cote d'Ivoire, 1993. Cocoa Producers' Alliance, Lagos, Nigeria. pp. 375-381.
Clement, D. & Sounigo, O. (1992) Ivory Coast Database. D. Clement & O. Sounigo, IRCC, Bingerville, Cote d'Ivoire. Personal Communication.
Kebe (1999) Data from Cote d'Ivoire on black pod resistance. Kebe, report on CAOBISCO project. Forwarded to ICGD by Dr. A.B.Eskes, IPGRI.
Enriquez, G. & Soria, V.J. (1977) Mejoramiento genético para resistencia a cinco enfermedades del cacao. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Cocoa Research Conference, Caracas, Venezuela, 1977. Cocoa Producers' Alliance, Lagos, Nigeria. pp. 45-56.
N'Goran, J.A.K., Lachenaud, P., Bastide P., & Paulin, D. (1993) Cocoa germplasm conservation initiatives in Cote d'Ivoire. In: Proceedings of the International Workshop on Conservation, Characterisation and Utilisation of Cocoa Genetic Resources in the 21st Century. CRU, UWI, Trinidad. pp. 221-227.
K. F. N’Guessan, A. B. Eskes & Ph. Lachenaud (2003) Etude de la Resistance du Cacaoyer aux Mirides : Classification des Grands Groupes de Cacaoyers en Fonction de Leur Niveau de Resistance ou Sensibilite. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Cocoa Research Conference, Accra, Ghana (October 2003). Cocoa Producers' Alliance, Lagos, Nigeria.