Revisiting 1727: Crop Failure Leads to the Birth of Trinitario Cacao

Journal of Crop Improvement

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 599-626

  Motilal, Lambert A ^a   Sreenivasan, Thayil N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

cacao industry; Criollo; Forastero; germplasm; Little Ice Age; Trinidad; Trinitario

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84866436461     PISSN: 15427528     EISSN: 15427536     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15427528.2012.663734     Document Type: Article

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