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M 116 [ICT]    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: Miscellaneous/Museum.
Location: ICTA St. Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Museum plot selections at the old cotton growing station, St. Augustine.

Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A]. Formerly recorded as M = Miscellaneous. Some M clones planted elsewhere on ICTA campus, St. Augustine. Includes Hart's Trinidad criollos, selections from Costa Rica, Ecuador, Brazil and mutant types.

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. About four clones from the United Fruit Company's programme in Costa Rica were supplied to ICTA in the 1930's and included in the M series. M 116 was suspected to be UF 613 and the parent of Posnette's T 9.
 

02 April 2002. Name new to the database from the ICG,T database/accession list [CRU01A].

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 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: M 116

Pod Index: 20.1 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 53.0
Total Wet Weight: 62.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.94 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.6 mm
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Testa: 5.60 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: slight
Length: 174.0 mm
Breadth: 82.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.06 mm
Ligule Width: 2.91 mm
Ovule Number: 54
Style Length: 2.60 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.