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CRU 72    Theobroma cacao

Derivation: Cocoa Research Unit.
Location: ICGT, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 72

Pod Index: 26.5 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 49.0
Total Wet Weight: 58.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.77 g
Cotyledon Length: 19.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.4 mm
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Testa: 6.30 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 185.0 mm
Breadth: 77.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Tissue: leaf
Mean Cadmium Content: 3.99 %
Accumulation: high
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Tissue: bean
Mean Cadmium Content: 1.81 %
Accumulation: high
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.84 mm
Ligule Width: 2.33 mm
Ovule Number: 53
Style Length: 2.12 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.
Lewis, Caleb, Adrian M. Lennon, Gaius Eudoxie & Pathmanathan Umaharan (2018) Genetic variation in bioaccumulation and partitioning of cadmium in Theobroma cacao L. Science of the Total Environment 640–641, 696–703