Yield performance and bean quality traits of cacao propagated by grafting and somatic embryo-derived cuttings

HortScience

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 358-362

  Goenaga, Ricardo ^a   Guiltinan, Mark ^b   Maximova, Siela ^b   Seguine, Ed ^c   Irizarry, Heber ^a  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MARS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocoa; Micropropagation; Quality

Indexed keywords

THEOBROMA CACAO;

EID: 84926292797     PISSN: 00185345     EISSN: 23279834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.21273/hortsci.50.3.358     Document Type: Article

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