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2000-11-08 |

Brazil hopes cocoa genome will beat witch’s broom

Brazil hopes to use genome mapping to find a solution to the witch’s broom fungus that has hit cocoa output over the past decade. Cocoa output in Brazil’s northern state of Bahia, the key growing region of the Americas, has dropped sharply since the disease was first discovered in 1989 - eliminating Brazil’s status as a major world producer. »We have mapped some of the cocoa genome with markers and know that in some specific parts of it, there are a couple of genes which we can use...which are very associated with resistance to witch’s broom,« said Raul Rene Valle, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s Cocoa Research Centre (Cepec).

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2000-11-08 |

Brazil hopes cocoa genome will beat witch’s broom

Brazil hopes to use genome mapping to find a solution to the witch’s broom fungus that has hit cocoa output over the past decade. Cocoa output in Brazil’s northern state of Bahia, the key growing region of the Americas, has dropped sharply since the disease was first discovered in 1989 - eliminating Brazil’s status as a major world producer. »We have mapped some of the cocoa genome with markers and know that in some specific parts of it, there are a couple of genes which we can use...which are very associated with resistance to witch’s broom,« said Raul Rene Valle, head of the Agriculture Ministry’s Cocoa Research Centre (Cepec).

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