Increasing cocoa butter yield through genetic improvement of Theobroma cacao L.: Seed fat content variability, inheritance, and association with seed yield

Euphytica

Volumn 103, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 115-121

  Pires, José Luis ^a   Cascardo, Júlio Cézar Mattos ^b   Lambert, Smilja Vidmar ^b   Figueira, Antonio ^c  

^a Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau   (Brazil)

^b Almirante Centre for Cocoa Studies Salvador   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Cacao; Cocoa; Fat content; Oil content; Sterculiaceae; Theobroma

Indexed keywords

BRAZIL; CROSSING; DETERMINATION OF CONTENT; DIALLEL ANALYSIS; GENETIC IMPROVEMENT; GENOTYPE; GERMPLASM; INHERITANCE; PLANT BREEDING; SEED YIELD;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 0031670873     PISSN: 00142336     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1018327411530     Document Type: Article

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