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UF 709    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1995)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: United Fruit selections.
Collected by UF company.
Location: Limon, Almirante, Costa Rica.

Notes:  Selections from the Atlantic coast made in the 1930's.

Bartley, 1998a [BAR98A] The UF series were selected from MATINA material and from material from Ecuador (pers. comm. Soria).
 

Synonyms: UFC 709, UFCO 709

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List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 10575
   - Local Name: UF-709
   - Year of Accession: 1952
 Trinidad and Tobago, International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad (ICG,T)
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: UF 709
   - Year of Accession: 1994

Pod Index: 30.2 (pods per kg dried beans)
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Seed Index: 67.1 (dried beans per 100g)
Productivity: medium - high
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Colour: light purple
Shape: ovate
Number: 39.0
Total Wet Weight: 53.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.85 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.6 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.4 mm
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Colour Dark Purple: Present
Colour Light Purple: Absent
Colour Grey: Absent
Colour White: Absent
Colour Mottled: Absent
Number: 32.3
Maximum Number: 47
Cotyledon Wet Weight: 2.27 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.49 g
Cotyledon Length: 25.7 mm
Cotyledon Width: 15.0 mm
Cotyledon Thickness: 10.1 mm
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Testa: 7.80 %
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Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: mammillate
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 162.0 mm
Breadth: 78.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
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Basal Constriction: moderate
Apex Form: slightly acute
Rugosity: slight
Husk Thickness: 11 mm (13.8 - 8.2)
Length: 184.0 mm
Breadth: 90.0 mm
Colour: high - intense / moderate anthocyanin (ridge/furrow)
Weight: 691.0 g
Pods Per Tree: 6
Hardness: soft
Length Breadth Ratio: 2.04
Note: ratio of distances between ridges within a pair and between ridges of two different pairs = 0.70
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Shape: amelonado
Colour: red
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Colour: slight anthocyanin
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Colour: brown
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.57 mm
Ligule Width: 2.03 mm
Ovule Number: 41
Style Length: 2.12 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
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Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent (apical)
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Colour: greyish green
Sepal Width: 2.28 mm
Sepal Length: 9.87 mm
Ligule Length: 8.73 mm
Ligule Width: 2.52 mm
Ovary Colour: intense anthocyanin (apical)
Ovary Width: 1.06 mm
Ovary Length: 1.53 mm
Style Length: 2.79 mm
Staminode Length: 8.40 mm
Pedicel Colour: pale red
Note: Translation of Methuen colour codes.
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Self Compatibility: self compatible
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Bartley, B.G.D. (1995) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). 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.
Costa Rica - CATIE (1981) Genetic Resources of Cacao. A Catalogue of the CATIE Collection. J.M.M. Engels, Tropical Agricultural Research and Training Centre, CATIE, Turrialba, Costa Rica. Technical Bulletin No. 7: pp. 191.
Morera, J., Paredes, A. & Mora, A. (1991) Germoplasma de cacao en el CATIE entre 1947 y 1991, Programa II: Generacion y transferencia de tecnologia. IICA, San Jose, Costa Rica, pp. 49.