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BOB 8 [CHA]    Theobroma cacao

 Lockwood, G. & Gyamfi, M.M.O. (1979)
The CRIG cocoa germplasm collection with notes on codes used in the breeding programme at Tafo and elsewhere. Technical Bulletin, No. 10, Cocoa Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana. pp. 62.

Derivation: BOBonaza.
Location: R. Bobonaza, Ecuador.

Synonyms: BOBONAZA 8 [CHA]

Location: R. Bobonaza, Oriente, Ecuador (primary forest)
Date: July 1972
Coordinates: 76.00 W, 0.20 S
Material collected: Budwood
Notes: 30 min up river from Chichirota N bank
Expedition Code: 72CH
   Chalmers, W.S., 1972

'Nacional' Population
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 HELD IN

 Ecuador, Estation Experimental Tropical Pichilingue
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: BOB - 8
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: BOB 8
   - Year of Accession: 1995

Susceptible
 Queroz, J., 1999

Pod Index: 25.2 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 32.0
Total Wet Weight: 55.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.24 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.0 mm
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Number: 36.0
Wet Weight: 1.64 g
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Testa: 4.60 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: intense
Length: 154.0 mm
Breadth: 87.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.69 mm
Ligule Width: 1.90 mm
Ovule Number: 38
Style Length: 2.35 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Lockwood, G. & Gyamfi, M.M.O. (1979) The CRIG cocoa germplasm collection with notes on codes used in the breeding programme at Tafo and elsewhere. Technical Bulletin, No. 10, Cocoa Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana. pp. 62.
Chalmers, W.S. (1972) INIAP-UWI expedition to collect Theobroma cacao in the Oriente region of Ecuador-June 25th-August 10th 1972. Unpublished Report. Cocoa Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Trinidad. pp. 16.
Motamayor, J.C., Lachenaud, P., da Silva e Mota, J.W., Loor, R., Kuhn, D.N., Brown, J.S. & Schnell, R.J. (2008) Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao L). PLoS ONE 3(10): e3311. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003311
EET - Pichilingue (2012) Accessions planted in EET - Pichilingue, Ecuador. Freddy Amores and Ignacio Sotomayor C, personal communication, February 2012.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
Queroz, J. (1999) Caracteristicas fenotipicas de materiales de la coleccion Chalmers. Unpublished report by James Queroz, INIAP, Ecuador passed on to the ICGD by Dr. A.Eskes, IPGRI.
Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee (2022) Morphological data from the International Cocoa Collection (ICG,T) maintained by the Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), Trinidad & Tobago. Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele. Last update March 2022.