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TRD 28    Theobroma cacao

 Barbados - Quarantine Station (1994)
List of clones in the Barbados Quarantine Collection. CRU Newsletter No. 1, Cocoa Research Unit, Trinidad.

Derivation: TRinidaD.
Collected by Warren/Cassie, CRU.
Location: North area of Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.

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: TRD 28

Pod Index: 25.9 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 41.0
Total Wet Weight: 57.9 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.94 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.2 mm
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Testa: 4.70 %
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Shape: oblong
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: intense
Length: 195.0 mm
Breadth: 79.0 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: 6.56 mm
Ligule Width: 2.51 mm
Ovule Number: 44
Style Length: 2.60 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Barbados - Quarantine Station (1994) List of clones in the Barbados Quarantine Collection. CRU Newsletter No. 1, Cocoa Research Unit, 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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.