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SLA 45    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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.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: Santa Lucia A.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Hda. Santa Lucia, Ecuador.

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

Bartley, 1998a [BAR98A] Pound used letters and numbers as identifiers. SLA, SLB and SLC could all be the same series of material.
 

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

 HELD IN

 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: SLA 45

Pod Index: 38.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 41.0
Total Wet Weight: 37.1 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.63 g
Cotyledon Length: 18.2 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.4 mm
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Testa: 5.20 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 132.0 mm
Breadth: 66.0 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: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.73 mm
Ligule Width: 2.47 mm
Ovule Number: 47
Style Length: 2.51 mm
Pedicel Colour: green
 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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.