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New flavors emerge from Peruvian cacao collection trip
New cacao types with unique flavors that are distinctly Peruvian have been identified by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. These new flavors could one day be marketed like wine, by geographical provenance.
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Cacao collection expedition may yield weapons for combating witches' broom disease
Fungi found in the leaves and trunks of wild Peruvian cacao trees offer the potential for biological control of cacao diseases such as witches' broom disease, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) scientists. ...
Sep 15, 2011 |
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'Food of the gods' genome sequence could make finest chocolate better
The production of high quality chocolate, and the farmers who grow it, will benefit from the recent sequencing and assembly of the chocolate tree genome, according to an international team led by Claire Lanaud ...
Dec 26, 2010 |
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The chocolate genome, unwrapped
Halloween is about monsters, ghouls and most of all, goodies. Kids might be more concerned about the quantity of treats that drop into their plastic pumpkin baskets than their quality -- but for chocolate, ...
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Chocolate farmers could benefit from newly sequenced cacao genome
A first draft of the cacao genome is complete, a consortium of academic, governmental, and industry scientists announced today. Indiana University Bloomington scientists performed much of the sequencing work, ...
Sep 15, 2010 |
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Research Team Finds Evidence Cacao Ritually Used in Chaco Canyon
(PhysOrg.com) -- Inhabitants of Chaco Canyon apparently drank chocolate from cylinders like these about a thousand years ago. That’s the finding in a paper published this week by PNAS, a publication of the ...
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Feb 02, 2009 |
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