Cacao is an important tree crop impacting on livelihoods of millions of farming families in tropical and sub-tropical countries worldwide. This review is the fruit of over 10 years of research, and serves to help conserve cocoa genetic diversity by identifying places for in situ collection and germplasm collection for ex situ genebanks.
The review will facilitate the identification of new HCP designations using complementary information that was obtained from a germplasm questionnaire that was delivered online to cocoa experts worldwide.
Future collection expeditions are based on the advice of these experts in conjunction with the literature analysis and represent a unified best approach to source cacao germplasm.
The review will facilitate the identification of new HCP designations using complementary information that was obtained from a germplasm questionnaire that was delivered online to cocoa experts worldwide.
Future collection expeditions are based on the advice of these experts in conjunction with the literature analysis and represent a unified best approach to source cacao germplasm.
