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MOQ 5 /5    Theobroma cacao

 Pound, F.J. (1943)
First report on the selection of cacao trees for resistance to Witches' Broom disease. Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.

Derivation: hda. MOQuique.
Collected by Pound.
Location: Hda. Moquique, Ecuador.

Bartley, 1995a [BAR95A]. Habit - Extremely vigorous. MOQ progenies derive from six trees, the first number of the clone number indicates which tree the fruit came from: MOQ 2 - most have green amelonado shape fruits (typical Nacional progeny?). MOQ 3 - red fruits. MOQ 4 - elongate fruits. MOQ 6 - elongate fruits, some red fruits.

Notes:  Pound, 1943b [POU43B] Progeny collected from trees which had shown resistance to Witches' Broom disease.
 

Synonyms: MOQ 55

 HELD IN

List received in 2018   Reference
• Accession: 22235
   - Local Name: MOQ-5/5
   - Year of Accession: 2014
List received in 2011   Reference
• Local Name: MOQ 5/5

 DISEASE

 Witches Broom
Resistant (Field Reaction).
 Butler, D.R. et al., 1998
Tolerant
 Sreenivasan, T.N., 1987

 YIELD

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Pod Index: 27.7 (pods per kg dried beans)
 Reference

 BEAN

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Colour: purple
Shape: elliptical
Number: 42.0
Total Wet Weight: 56.3 g
Cotyledon Dry Weight: 0.86 g
Cotyledon Length: 21.3 mm
Cotyledon Width: 12.3 mm
 Reference

 BUTTERFAT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Testa: 6.40 %
 Reference
 Trinidad - CRU, 1998
Butterfat Content: 52.30 %
Testa: 7.00 %
 Reference

 FRUIT

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Shape: elliptical
Basal Constriction: strong
Apex Form: obtuse
Rugosity: intense
Length: 169.0 mm
Breadth: 76.0 mm
Colour: intense anthocyanin
Hardness: hard
Note: Hardness > 2.0 Mpa
 Reference

 FLUSH

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

 FLOWER

 Frances Bekele & Gillian Bidaisee, 2022
Ligule Colour: anthocyanin absent
Stamen Colour: slight anthocyanin
Sepal Length: 9.52 mm
Ligule Width: 2.65 mm
Ovule Number: 44
Style Length: 2.63 mm
Pedicel Colour: red
 Reference

Pound, F.J. (1943) First report on the selection of cacao trees for resistance to Witches' Broom disease. Unpublished report, Ministry of Agriculture, Trinidad.
Allan Mata (2018) Accession list for the International Cacao Collection at CATIE (IC3). Personal communication.
CRU (2011) ICG,T accessions. CRU website.
Butler, D.R., Iwaro, A.D., Thevenin, J.-M., Bekele, F., Sounigo, O., Christopher, Y. & Mooledhar, V. (1998) Individual Institute Reports - Trinidad & Tobago, CRU. Report on the IPGRI project: Cocoa Germplasm Utilisation and Conservation, A Global Approach. Appendix to General Progress Report of Year 1.
Sreenivasan, T.N. (1987) ICGT Germplasm at Marper Farm showing freedom from cushion Brooms and vegetative brooms. Unpublished report, CRU, Trinidad and Tobago.
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.
Trinidad - CRU (1998) Fat Analysis Data. Data supplied on computer diskette by F. Bekele, CRU, Trinidad.