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MOQ 2 /10    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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.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: hda. MOQuique.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Hda. Moquique, Ecuador.

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Habit - Extremely vigorous. MOQ progenies derive from six trees, the first number of the clone number indicates which tree the fruit came from: MOQ 2 - most have green amelonado shape fruits (typical Nacional progeny?). MOQ 3 - red fruits. MOQ 4 - elongate fruits. MOQ 6 - elongate fruits, some red fruits.

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

Synonyms: MOQ 210

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 Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: MOQ 210
   - Year of Accession: 1974
List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: MOQ 210
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: MOQ 2/10

Pod Index: 22.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
 Reference

Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 35.0
Total Wet Weight: 60.7 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.26 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.1 mm
Cotyledon Width: 13.1 mm
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Testa: 4.50 %
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Shape: obovate
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: indented
Rugosity: slight
Length: 160.0 mm
Breadth: 96.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Distance from Base to Widest Part: 135 mm
Length: 273.0 mm
Width: 109.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.50
Basal Angle: 122.3 °
Apical Angle: 67.0 °
Petiole Length: 23 mm
Pulvinus Length: 19 mm
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: intense anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.68 mm
Ligule Width: 2.69 mm
Ovule Number: 38
Style Length: 2.81 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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.
CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
Malaysia - ARC Tuaran (1990) List of clones held in the Dept. of Agriculture's collection, at Sabah, Tuaran, Malaysia. E.B. Tay, Malaysian Cocoa Board, Malaysia. Personal Communication.
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.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.