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SPCL News and Events
News:
ARS researchers search for wild chocolate trees and biocontrol organisms in Peru. Researchers from SPCL and Peruvian collaborators explored several river basins in the Upper Amazon region in Peru during July 11-25 to search for new sources of wild chocolate trees, mycological endophytes and fungal pathogens of chocolate. Participants included Lyndel Meinhardt and Dapeng Zhang from SPCL and Gary Samuels from Systematic Mycology and Microbiology Laboratory. The trip combined the research objectives of conserving endangered plant material, finding new resistant trees for chocolate breeding programs, identifying new biological control organisms and understanding the diversity of fungal pathogens of chocolate. Read more about it at: Tracking The Origin of Cacao.
World Cocoa Foundation Research Update: November 2008
World Cocoa Foundation Research Update: December 2008
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