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REDAMEL 1 /30    Theobroma cacao

 Bartley, B.G.D. (1993)
Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.

Derivation: RED AMELonado.
Collected by Bartley.
Location: ICTA, Trinidad and Tobago.

Notes:  Bartley, 1993 [BAR93A] Progenies of two red Amelonado pods sent to Trinidad from Belem.

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. There are two possible origins of these fruits:

1) a red fruited tree in Museu Goeldi,

2) a tree in a back garden seen by Dr. Bartley in 1952.
 

Synonyms: REDAMEL 130, RED 1 /30, RED AMELONADO 1 /30, REDAME 1 /30

 PEDIGREE DETAILS

 Father to:
AX 358    Trinidad - ICTA, No Date
AX 362    Trinidad - ICTA, No Date

 HELD IN

List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: REDAMEL 1/30
   - Year of Accession: 1963

 YIELD

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Pod Index: 23.9 (pods per kg dried beans)
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 BEAN

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Colour: dark purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 37.0
Total Wet Weight: 64.6 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 1.13 g
Cotyledon Length: 23.6 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.6 mm
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 BUTTERFAT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Testa: 5.80 %
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 FRUIT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: acute
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 153.0 mm
Breadth: 81.0 mm
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
 Reference

 CADMIUM

 Lewis, Caleb et al., 2018
Tissue: leaf
Mean Cadmium Content: 0.77 %
Accumulation: low
 Reference
 Lewis, Caleb et al., 2018
Tissue: bean
Mean Cadmium Content: 0.17 %
Accumulation: low
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 FLUSH

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Colour: moderate anthocyanin
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 FLOWER

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 7.19 mm
Ligule Width: 2.64 mm
Ovule Number: 43
Style Length: 2.15 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Bartley, B.G.D. (1993) Notes on the meaning and origins of clone names. B.G.D Bartley. Personal Communications.
Trinidad - ICTA (No Date) List of AX Crosses. Unpublished report, Imperial College of Tropical Agriculture, Trinidad. pp 18.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee (2022) Morphological data from the International Cocoa Collection (ICG,T) maintained by the Cocoa Research Centre (CRC), Trinidad & Tobago. Unpublished data on fruit, bean, flower and flush morphology supplied as an Excel spreadsheet by Frances Bekele. Last update March 2022.
Lewis, Caleb, Adrian M. Lennon, Gaius Eudoxie & Pathmanathan Umaharan (2018) Genetic variation in bioaccumulation and partitioning of cadmium in Theobroma cacao L. Science of the Total Environment 640–641, 696–703