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Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas.

Heredity - 1 Nov 2002

Motamayor J C, Risterucci A M, Lopez P A, Ortiz C F, Moreno A, Lanaud C

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Criollo cacao (Theobroma cacao ssp. cacao) was cultivated by the Mayas over 1500 years ago. It has been suggested that Criollo cacao originated in Central America and that it evolved independently from the cacao populations in the Amazon basin. Cacao populations from the Amazon basin are included in the second morphogeographic group: Forastero, and assigned to T. cacao ssp. sphaerocarpum. To gain further insight...

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PMID: 12399997
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800156

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