The Theobroma cacao genome sequences are deposited in the EMB:/Genbank/DDBJ databases under accession numbers CACC01000001-CACC01025912. A genome browser can be found here.

The cacao tree species (Theobroma cacao L.), from which we get chocolate, is likely about 7.5 million years old, with chloroplast genomes indicating that the current known diversity diversified ...

Cocoa comes from the Theobroma cacao tree, which forms the basis of a multibillion-dollar U.S. chocolate industry. The seeds are processed into cocoa beans that are the source of cocoa, cocoa ...

Scientists have uncovered a surprising find from the Amazon Basin: three new species of plants closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that gives us chocolate. This finding, made by examining ...

Theo Chocolate was named after the Theobroma cacao tree. If you want to know more about the company that makes organic-chocolate products, the Chocolate Factory Tour is for you. You’ll learn ...

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans (cocoa) are used to make products including chocolate, liquor and cocoa butter, may have spread from the Amazon basin to the other regions of South ...

Chocolate, produced from seeds of the cacao tree Theobroma cacao, is one of the most popular flavors in the world, with sales around 100$ billion dollars per year. Yet, as worldwide demand ...

Ken-Ichi Miyaji, Walny S. Da Silva, Paulo de T. Alvim, Longevity of Leaves of a Tropical Tree, Theobroma cacao, Grown Under Shading, in Relation to Position Within the Canopy and Time of Emergence, ...

Tuomas Hämälä, Eric K. Wafula, Mark J. Guiltinan, Paula E. Ralph, Claude W. dePamphilis, Peter Tiffin, Genomic structural variants constrain and facilitate adaptation in natural populations of ...