Diversity of Cacao Trees in Waslala, Nicaragua: Associations between Genotype Spectra, Product Quality and Yield Potential

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Trognitz, Bodo ^a,b   Cros, Emile ^c   Assemat, Sophie ^c   Davrieux, Fabrice ^c   Forestier Chiron, Nelly ^c   Ayestas, Eusebio ^d   Kuant, Aldo ^e   Scheldeman, Xavier ^f   Hermann, Michael ^f,g  

^a AIT AUSTRIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b CSF Campus Science Support Facilities   (Austria)

^c CIRAD   (France)

^d Universidad Nacional Agraria   (Nicaragua)

^e Pro Mundo Humano ^*  (Nicaragua)

^f Regional Office for the Americas   (Colombia)

^g CROPS FOR THE FUTURE   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAFFEINE; EPICATECHIN; METHYLXANTHINE; PROCYANIDIN; THEOBROMINE;

ARTICLE; CACAO; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FERMENTATION; GENE SEGREGATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HARVEST PERIOD; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; NICARAGUA; NONHUMAN; PLANT GENETICS; PLANT YIELD; TREE;

BIFLAVONOIDS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOMASS; CACAO; CAFFEINE; CATECHIN; FERMENTATION; FOOD HANDLING; FRUIT; GENETIC VARIATION; GENOTYPE; NICARAGUA; PROANTHOCYANIDINS; QUALITY CONTROL; SEEDS; SPECTROSCOPY, NEAR-INFRARED; TASTE; THEOBROMINE; TREES; XANTHINES;

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84872577660     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0054079     Document Type: Article

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