Like other crops cocoa can be attacked by a number of pest species including fungal diseases, insects and rodents - some of which (e.g. frosty pod rot and cocoa pod borer) have increased dramatically in geographical range and are sometimes described as "invasive species".[1]
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crops cocoa can be attacked by a number of pest species including fungal diseases, insects and rodents - some of which (e.g. frosty pod rot and cocoa pod...
Theobroma cacao (cacao tree or cocoa tree) is a small (6–12 m (20–39 ft) tall) evergreen tree in the family Malvaceae. Its seeds, cocoa beans, are used...
is the dried and fully fermented seed of Theobroma cacao, the cacao tree, from which cocoa solids (a mixture of nonfat substances) and cocoa butter (the...
plant pathogen, the causative agent of vascular-streak dieback of cocoa (Theobroma cacao). Listofcacaodiseases Samuels GJ, Ismaiel A, Rosmana A, Junaid...
to as gliricidia or by its Spanish common name madre de cacao (also anglicized as mother of cocoa), is a medium size leguminous tree belonging to the...
and ground cacao seed kernels that is available as a liquid, solid, or paste, either on its own or as a flavoring agent in other foods. Cacao has been consumed...
broom disease" on T. cacao, was reported on a Brazilian specimen of T. bicolor in 1999. Madrinan, S. (2020). "Theobroma bicolor". IUCN Red Listof Threatened...
saturated fat in meat, eggs, cacao, and nuts is primarily the triglycerides of palmitic and stearic acids. Some common examples of saturated fatty acids: Lauric...
Many of the commensal relationships are found within the family Chironomidae. Other ceratopogonid midges are major pollinators of Theobroma cacao (cocoa...
type of candy. Chocolate is made from the fermented, roasted and ground beans of the tropical cacao tree. In America, cocoa refers to ground cacao beans...
the calculations of the scientist David Cook, in which in some cases no one survived due to diseases. The deadliest Old World diseases in the Americas...
does not contain any additives like sugars. Cacao originated in Mesoamerica around 5,300 years ago [History of chocolate], where it was first domesticated...
from fairly traded cacao beans directly from small and large-scale growers in Venezuela. El Rey has managed to eliminate all kinds of middlemen, otherwise...
known to infect cacao trees. They are known to live in the Philippines. It also resides in China, where it is the most common of all of the Xiphinema nematodes...
kudriavzevii and Geotrichum. Most of the time, the two fungi are already present on the seed pods and seeds of the cacao plant, but specific strains are...
Lois Ellen Frank calls potatoes, tomatoes, corn, beans, squash, chili, cacao, and vanilla the "magic eight" ingredients that were found and used only...
the genus Durio are edible durians, and several of those are also grown commercially and these diseases can concern them as well. algal leaf spot, red...
The larvae of the moth Characoma strictigrapta that also attacks cacao bore into the nuts. Traders sometimes apply an extract of the bark of Rauvolfia...
This is a listof plant species that, when consumed by humans, are known or suspected to produce psychoactive effects: changes in nervous system function...
chocolate. Cups, gourds, cacao beans, as well as other things they acquired were listed in The Essential Codex Mendoza. Cacao became used as a currency...
rainforest tree related to cacao. Native and common throughout the Amazon basin, it is naturally cultivated in the jungles of north of Brazil, with the largest...