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Genetic structure of traditional cacao reveals four new genetic lineages in indigenous Amazonian sites in Peru.
PloS one - 1 Jan 2026
Motilal Lambert A, Calderon Martha S, Bustamante Danilo E, Gopaulchan David, Tineo Daniel, Márquez-Romero Fanny R, Lastra Sphyros, Diaz-Valderrama Jorge R, Guerrero-Abad Juan Carlos, Oliva Manuel, Umaharan Pathmanathan
Abstract excerpt
Cacao genetic resources in Peru are largely uncharacterized. Knowledge of their genetic structure is needed for their conservation and use. Indigenous on-farm cacao trees (n = 390) from the Departments of Amazonas (n = 130), Ayacucho (n = 76), Cajamarca (n = 1), Cusco (n = 110), Madre de Dios (n = 10), Piura (n = 59), San Martín (n = 3) and Ucayali (n = 1) in Peru were fingerprinted with 192 single nucleotide...
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