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NA 721    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1938)
Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.

Derivation: river NAnay.
Collected by Pound.
Location: R. Nanay, Peru.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Fruit - unpigmented, half blanco, long oval, slightly warty, no conspicuous point nor bottle neck. Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Pound describes the typical NANAY as above (pod colour between light/intermediate green) but fruits with different characteristics appear among the NA clones of today which result from seedling progenies of the original collections. Posnette, 1945a [POS45A]. Fan branches are characterised by relatively short (less than 2 cm) petioles in which the pulvini are not clearly separated until the leaf ages, when a shallow constriction may develop. The stamen filaments are always pigmented to some degree, usually heavily.

Notes:  Collected in 1937.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Pods were probably collected from 14 trees which were free of witches' broom disease.

Pound, 1943b [POU43B]. 708 plants were planted at Marper farm.


 

Synonyms: NANAI 721, NANAY 721

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 Ghana, Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG)
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: NA721
   - Year of Accession: 1970
List received in 1990   Reference
• Local Name: NA 721
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: NA 721

Pod Index: 29.3 (pods per kg dried beans)
 Reference

Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 48.0
Total Wet Weight: 44.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.71 g
Cotyledon Length: 18.2 mm
Cotyledon Width: 9.6 mm
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Testa: 6.50 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: attenuate
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 208.0 mm
Breadth: 83.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 6.51 mm
Ligule Width: 2.37 mm
Ovule Number: 50
Style Length: 2.62 mm
Pedicel Colour: green
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1938) Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.
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.