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LCT EEN 108    Theobroma cacao

 Allen, J.B. (1987)
London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project. Final Report Phase 2. Cocoa Growers' Bulletin (Cadbury Schweppes plc, Birmingham, U.K.) 39: pp. 1-94.

Derivation: London Cocoa Trade Est. Exp. Napo.
Collected by Allen.
Location: Ecuador.

Notes:  Allen, 1989a [ALL89A] Seedling progenies are identifed by the suffix /s2, /s3. The numbers in the suffix of the seedling material relates to the genebank/quarantine station where the seedling material was originally sent as follows:

s1,s2... in San Carlos genebank, Ecuador,

s101,s102... at Kew (and moved to Trinidad),

s201,s202... at USDA Miami quarantine station,

s301,s302... at Barbados quarantine station.


 

Synonyms: EEN 108

Location: R. Curaray, Para, Ecuador (primary forest)
Date: 2 October 1980
Coordinates: 76.55 W, 1.20 S
Material collected: Budwood
Altitude: 200 m
Notes: Curaray, 6 hr down R, S bank near mouth of R. Namoyacu
Expedition Code: 80EQ
   Allen, J.B., 1987

'Curaray' Population
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 HELD IN

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Accession: 1302
   - Local Name: LCTEEN 108
List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 108
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: LCTEEN - 108
   - Year of Accession: 2005
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: LCT EEN 108
   - Year of Accession: 1985

Colour Dark Purple: Present
Colour Light Purple: Present
Colour White: Absent
Number: 34.0
Length: 24.5 mm
Width: 14.9 mm
Thickness: 9.8 mm
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 2.30 g
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Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: slightly acute
Rugosity: intense
Husk Thickness: 20 mm
Length: 197.0 mm
Breadth: 91.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Weight: 700.0 g
Length Breadth Ratio: 2.16
Note: genebank data
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Allen, J.B. (1987) London Cocoa Trade Amazon Project. Final Report Phase 2. Cocoa Growers' Bulletin (Cadbury Schweppes plc, Birmingham, U.K.) 39: pp. 1-94.
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
CEPEC (2012) Accession list for the CEPEC (Bahia, Brazil) collection. Dr. José Luis Pires, personal communication, February 2012.
Ecuador - Napo (1990) Lista de los materiales en San Carlos, Napo, basada en Informe Final de Allen, 1987, y la lista de CRU, Trinidad (29 Junio 1990), de materiales ya establecidos. Unpublished report, E.E.T. San Carlos, Napo, Ecuador, pp. 2.
EET - Pichilingue (2012) Accessions planted in EET - Pichilingue, Ecuador. Freddy Amores and Ignacio Sotomayor C, personal communication, February 2012.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
Allen, J.B. (1988) Geographical variation and population biology in wild Theobroma cacao. PhD. Thesis, University of Edinburgh, U.K. pp. 197.
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.