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MOQ 5 /12    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1943)
First report on the selection of cacao trees for resistance to Witches' Broom disease. Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.

Derivation: hda. MOQuique.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Hda. Moquique, Ecuador.

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Habit - Extremely vigorous. MOQ progenies derive from six trees, the first number of the clone number indicates which tree the fruit came from: MOQ 2 - most have green amelonado shape fruits (typical Nacional progeny?). MOQ 3 - red fruits. MOQ 4 - elongate fruits. MOQ 6 - elongate fruits, some red fruits.

Notes:  Pound, 1943b [POU43B] Progeny collected from trees which had shown resistance to Witches' Broom disease.
 

Synonyms: MOQ 512

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: MOQ 5/12

Pod Index: 24.8 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 40.0
Total Wet Weight: 63.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.01 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.1 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.2 mm
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Testa: 6.60 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: slight
Length: 162.0 mm
Breadth: 84.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 8.22 mm
Ligule Width: 2.32 mm
Ovule Number: 39
Style Length: 2.59 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1943) First report on the selection of cacao trees for resistance to Witches' Broom disease. Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.