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MO 20    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1938)
Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.

Derivation: river MOrona.
Collected by Pound.
Location: R. Morona, Peru.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Fruit - Short, oval, warty, some types with red tint.

Notes:  Collected in 1937.

Pound, 1938a [POU38A]. Pods may have been collected from one tree with no Witches Broom infection.

Bartley, 1993a [BAR93A]. It is likely that accessions recorded with high numbers (>100?) are probably MOQ accessions since Pound, 1943b [POU43B] states that 80 plants were planted at Marper farm.
 

Synonyms: MORONA 20

 NOTES

August 2006. The accession held by this name at the University of Reading Cocoa Quarantine Centre is now known to have been mislabelled.

 PEDIGREE DETAILS

 Father to:
AX 551    Lockwood, G. & Gyamfi, M.M.O., 1979

 POPULATION

 Motamayor, J.C. et al., 2008
'Nacional' Population
Subgroup: 'Morona'   Reference

 HELD IN

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Current List   ICQC,R Website
• Accession: RUQ 1566     ICQC,R 
   - Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 2005
List received in 2012   Reference
• Accession: 997
   - Local Name: MO 20
List received in 1997   Reference
• Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 1997
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: MO-20
   - Year of Accession: 1997
List received in 1999   Reference
• Local Name: MO 20
List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 22232
   - Local Name: MO-20
   - Year of Accession: 2015
List received in 2012   Reference
• Local Name: MO20
   - Year of Accession: 1998
List received in 1997   Reference
• Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 1996
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 1938
List received in 2016   Reference
• Accession: PI 668476     GRIN-Global 
   - Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 2008
• Accession: TARS 16729     GRIN-Global 
   - Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 1970
List received in 2010   Reference
• Accession: MIA 35769     GRIN-Global 
   - Local Name: MO 20
   - Year of Accession: 2002

 DISEASE

 Ceratocystis
Susceptible (Branch).
Note: Based on mycelium growth and the production of perithecia..
 Stela Dalva Vieira Midlej Silva, 2003

 YIELD

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Pod Index: 30.0 (pods per kg dried beans)
 Reference

 BEAN

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 34.0
Total Wet Weight: 46.4 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.98 g
Cotyledon Length: 22.2 mm
Cotyledon Width: 10.0 mm
 Reference

 BUTTERFAT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Testa: 4.90 %
 Reference

 FRUIT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: slight
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: moderate
Length: 173.0 mm
Breadth: 83.0 mm
Colour: anthocyanin absent
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
 Reference

 PHENOTYPING

 Fiona Lahive, 2017
Accession: RUQ 1566
Light Saturated Photosynthetic Rate: 7.23 μmol m2 s-1
Stomatal Conductance: 0.09 mol m2 s-1
Transpiration Rate: 1.47 mmol m2 s-1
Intrinsic Water Use Efficiency: 81.85 μmol mol-1
Instantaneous Water Use Efficiency: 4.90 mmol mol-1
Flush Size: 5
Leaf Area: 317.90 cm2
Leaf Dry Weight: 2.12 g
Specific Leaf Area: 149.80 cm2 g-1
 Reference

 FLUSH

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Colour: anthocyanin absent
 Reference

 LEAF

 Trinidad - ICGT, 1992
Distance from Base to Widest Part: 131 mm
Length: 238.0 mm
Width: 81.0 mm
Length to Width Ratio: 2.90
Basal Angle: 120.1 °
Apical Angle: 65.5 °
Petiole Length: 20 mm
Pulvinus Length: 12 mm
 Reference

 FLOWER

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Ligule Colour: slight anthocyanin
Stamen Colour: anthocyanin absent
Sepal Length: 7.99 mm
Ligule Width: 3.08 mm
Ovule Number: 39
Style Length: 2.30 mm
Pedicel Colour: reddish
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1938) Cacao and Witchbroom Disease of South America with notes on other species of Theobroma. Archives of Cocoa Research 1: pp. 26-71.
Lockwood, G. & Gyamfi, M.M.O. (1979) The CRIG cocoa germplasm collection with notes on codes used in the breeding programme at Tafo and elsewhere. Technical Bulletin, No. 10, Cocoa Research Institute, Tafo, Ghana. pp. 62.
Motamayor, J.C., Lachenaud, P., da Silva e Mota, J.W., Loor, R., Kuhn, D.N., Brown, J.S. & Schnell, R.J. (2008) Geographic and Genetic Population Differentiation of the Amazonian Chocolate Tree (Theobroma cacao L). PLoS ONE 3(10): e3311. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0003311
CEPEC (2012) Accession list for the CEPEC (Bahia, Brazil) collection. Dr. José Luis Pires, personal communication, February 2012.
Brazil - Almirante Cacao (1997) Cocoa Germplasm Importation Lists 1994 - 1997. Unpublished list supplied by Martin Aitken.
Mars Center for Cocoa Science (2012) Accession list for the Mars Center for Cocoa Science. Jean-Philippe Marelli, personal communication, February 2012.
Eskes, A.B. (1999) Advanced Draft. Working Procedures and Recording Sheets for the CFC/ICCO/IPGRI Project. CFC/ICCO/IPGRI Cocoa Project.
Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Personal communication.
CRIG (2012) Cocoa accessions held in the Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana (CRIG). Francis Kwame Padi, personal communication, February 2012.
India - Kerala (1997) List of survivng clones from all the introductions. R.V. Nair, Kerala Agricultural University, India. Personal Communication.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
USDA, ARS Tropical Agriculture Research Station, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico. (2016) List of cocoa accessions held at Mayaguez in April 2016. USDA-ARS GRIN-Global. [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
USDA-ARS, SHRS, NCGR, National Germplasm Repository, Miami, Florida, USA. (2010) List of cocoa accessions held at Miami and Coconut Grove (Plant Introduction Station) in July, 2010. USDA, ARS, National Genetic Resources Program. Germplasm Resources Information Network - (GRIN). [Online Database] National Germplasm Resources Laboratory, Beltsville, Maryland.
Stela Dalva Vieira Midlej Silva (2003) Ensaios Para Avaliação do Cacaueiro à Murcha-de-Ceratocystis na Bahia, Brasil. In: Proceedings of the 14th International Cocoa Research Conference, Accra, Ghana (October 2003). Cocoa Producers' Alliance, Lagos, Nigeria.
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.
Fiona Lahive (2017) Phenotypic data from climate change trials. Personal communication.
Trinidad - ICGT (1992) Leaf descriptors. Unpublished data supplied on computer diskette by International Cocoa Genebank, Trinidad, University of the West Indies, Trinidad.