Genomics of Theobroma cacao, "the Food of the Gods"
| dc.contributor.author | Joseph Verica | |
| dc.contributor.author | Mark J. Guiltinan | |
| dc.contributor.author | Dapeng Zhang | |
| dc.contributor.author | Antonio Figueira | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-04-09T10:59:54Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-04-09T10:59:54Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2008 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Theobroma cacao, the chocolate tree. is an important tropical tree-cropthat provides sustainable economic and environmental benefits to some of the poor-est and most ecologically sensitive areas of the world. Recent progress in thedevelopment of genomics tools for cacao is reviewed. These include a referencemolecular genetic map, simple sequence repeats and other molecular markers, twogermplasm databases with microsatellite DNA fingerprints and other moleculardata, many quantitative trait loci mapping projects which have identified disease re-sistance and yield component loci, several expressed sequence tag resources, a cacaomicroarray, bacterial artificial chromosome libraries, and a genetic transformationsystem. The evolutionary relatedness of cacao with other important crops and modelplant systems positions cacao genomics to play a significant role in translationalplant genomics. The future prospects for the contribution of cacao genomics to im-provement of this crop for sustainable cacao production and as a tool for povertyalleviation and environmental stabilization are discussed. | en_US |
| dc.identifier.citation | Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants,2008,145-170 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/338 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.title | Genomics of Theobroma cacao, "the Food of the Gods" | en_US |
| dc.type | Article | en_US |