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AM 1 /57 [POU]    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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.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: hacienda AMalia.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Hda. Amalia, Ecuador.

Notes:  Progeny from selected trees presumed to be resistant to Witches Broom.

Seedling material taken from Hacienda Amalia, Ecuador to Marper Estate by Pound in 1937. According to Pound (Bartley, pers.comm.) the most outstanding trees encountered [LOC79A].

Pound, 1943b [POU43B]. Progeny collected from two trees Amalia No.1 and Amalia No. 2.

Bartley, 1997d [BAR97D] There is a great deal of confusion in the interpretation of the numerical part of the name as given by Pound. In a report by Pound on the establishment of this material at Marper Farm in Trinidad he gives the numbers of progenies "observed" (although not necessarily all those that were planted) as Amalia 1 - 69 progenies observed, Amalia 2 - 67 progeny observed.
 

Synonyms: AM 157 [POU], AM 5 /7 [POU]

'Iquitos' Population
Subgroup: 'IMC I'   Reference

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 United Kingdom, International Cocoa Quarantine Centre, Reading (ICQC,R)
Current List   ICQC,R Website
• Accession: RUQ 1748     ICQC,R 
   - Local Name: AM 1/57
   - Year of Accession: 2016
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: AM 1/57 [POU]

Pod Index: 21.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 53.0
Total Wet Weight: 67.5 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.90 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.5 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: slight
Length: 151.0 mm
Breadth: 88.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: moderate
Note: Hardness > 1.6 and <= 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.39 mm
Ligule Width: 2.60 mm
Ovule Number: 55
Style Length: 2.27 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.
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
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.