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

Heredity

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 380-386

  Motamayor, J C ^a,e   Risterucci, A M ^a   Lopez, P A ^b   Ortiz, C F ^c   Moreno, A ^d   Lanaud, C ^a  

^a CIRAD   (France)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES FORESTALES   (Mexico)

^c Colegio de Postgraduados ^*  (Mexico)

^d INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE INVESTIGACIONES AGRÍCOLAS INIA   (Venezuela)

^e AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Criollo; Domestication; Genetic diversity; Microsatellites; RFLP; Theobroma cacao L.

Indexed keywords

COCOA; DOMESTICATION;

BIOGEOGRAPHY; CENTRAL AMERICA; CULTIVATED SPECIES; GENETIC VARIABILITY; INTROGRESSION; PLANT BREEDING; PLANT EVOLUTION; RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH POLYMORPHISM; SUBSPECIES; AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; CACAO; COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENE; GENETICS; SOUTH AMERICA;

CENTRAL AMERICA;

CRIOLLO CACAO; THEOBROMA CACAO;

MICROSATELLITE DNA; PLANT DNA;

AGRICULTURE; CACAO; CENTRAL AMERICA; DNA, PLANT; GENES, PLANT; MICROSATELLITE REPEATS; POLYMORPHISM, RESTRICTION FRAGMENT LENGTH; SOUTH AMERICA; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0036858841     PISSN: 0018067X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.hdy.6800156     Document Type: Article

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