(Press-News.org) The cacao tree species (Theobroma cacao L.), from which we get chocolate, is likely about 7.5 million years old, with chloroplast genomes indicating that the current known diversity diversified during the Pliocene or Miocene epochs
Article URL: https://plos.io/4gQHlB2
Article title: Comparative analyses of chloroplast genomes of Theobroma cacao from northern Peru
Author countries: Perú
Funding: This study was supported by the Programa Nacional de Investigación Científica y Estudios Avanzados (PROCIENCIA) funded by the Project through the Contract N° 026-2016-FONDECYT “Círculo de Investigación para la Innovación y el fortalecimiento de la cadena de valor del cacao nativo fino de aroma en la zona nor oriental del Perú (CINCACAO)”, and Project CUI N° 2252878 (SNIP N° 312252) “Creación del Servicio de un Laboratorio de Fisiología y Biotecnología Vegetal de la Universidad Nacional Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM)”, executed by the Instituto de Investigación para el Desarrollo Sustentable de Ceja de Selva (INDES-CES) at the National University Toribio Rodríguez de Mendoza de Amazonas (UNTRM). It was also partially funded by CONCYTEC under Project MiCroResi PE501079652-2022-PROCIENCIA. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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The cacao tree species (Theobroma cacao L.), from which we get chocolate, is likely about 7.5 million years old, with chloroplast genomes indicating that the current known diversity diversified during
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