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CRU 89    Theobroma cacao

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

Notes:  Selections made from Trinidad populations.
 

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BioProject: PRJNA486011   NCBI   ENA FASTQ 
Project: PRJEB28591   EVA (project)   EVA (analysis) 
Library Source: Genomic
 
Run: SRR7774355   NCBI   ENA FASTQ 
Experiment: SRX4629469
BioSample: SAMN09934424
SampleName: CRU_89
SampleSource: Trinidad, Tree_ID: Tc17488

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 United Kingdom, International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, Reading (ICQC,R)
Current List   ICQC,R Website
• Accession: RUQ 1383     ICQC,R 
   - Local Name: CRU 89
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: CRU89
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: CRU 89

Resistant, sp. P. palmivora (Pod).
Note: Score: 2 (1-8 Scale). Fully grown, unripe detached pods (4-5 months old).
 A.D. Iwaro et al., 2006

Pod Index: 20.4 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 34.0
Total Wet Weight: 65.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.44 g
Cotyledon Length: 24.8 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.3 mm
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Testa: 4.20 %
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Butterfat Content: 51.28 %
Testa: 5.58 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 146.0 mm
Breadth: 85.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Accession: RUQ 1383
Light Saturated Photosynthetic Rate: 3.43 μmol m2 s-1
Stomatal Conductance: 0.07 mol m2 s-1
Transpiration Rate: 0.95 mmol m2 s-1
Intrinsic Water Use Efficiency: 51.35 μmol mol-1
Instantaneous Water Use Efficiency: 3.68 mmol mol-1
Flush Size: 5
Leaf Area: 310.90 cm2
Leaf Dry Weight: 2.28 g
Specific Leaf Area: 137.80 cm2 g-1
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.63 mm
Ligule Width: 2.52 mm
Ovule Number: 46
Style Length: 2.59 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
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Cornejo, O.E., Muh-Ching Yee, Victor Dominguez, Mary Andrews, Alexandra Sockell, Erika Strandberg, Donald Livingstone III, Conrad Stack, Alberto Romero, Pathmanathan Umaharan, Stefan Royaert, Nilesh R. Tawari, Pauline Ng, Osman Gutierrez, Wilbert Phillips, Keithanne Mockaitis, Carlos D. Bustamante & Juan C. Motamayor (2018) Population genomic analyses of the chocolate tree, Theobroma cacao L., provide insights into its domestication process. Commun Biol 1, 167
CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
A.D. Iwaro, D.R. Butler & A.B. Eskes (2006) Sources of resistance to Phytophthora pod rot at the International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad. Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution (2006) 53: 99–109
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.
Trinidad - CRU (1998) Fat Analysis Data. Data supplied on computer diskette by F. Bekele, CRU, Trinidad.
Fiona Lahive (2017) Phenotypic data from climate change trials. Personal communication.