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SM 6 [POU]    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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.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: San Miguel.
Collected by Pound.
Location: San Miguel, Ecuador.

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

Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A]. There is a farm of this name on the other side of R. Vinces from Limoncillo, which Pound could have visited. It is also possible that the name refers to the same place that the EET selections from Los Rios were made.


 

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List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: SM-06
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: SM 6 [POU]

Pod Index: 32.8 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Colour: dark purple
Shape: oblong
Number: 35.0
Total Wet Weight: 48.2 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.87 g
Cotyledon Length: 20.5 mm
Cotyledon Width: 11.4 mm
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Testa: 5.50 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: slight
Length: 167.0 mm
Breadth: 90.0 mm
Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: intense anthocyanin
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.57 mm
Ligule Width: 2.18 mm
Ovule Number: 43
Style Length: 2.46 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 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 Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.
Mars Center for Cocoa Science (2012) Accession list for the Mars Center for Cocoa Science. Jean-Philippe Marelli, personal communication, February 2012.
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 Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele.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.