ICT
Instituto de Cultivos Tropicales
Peru ( Americas )
National collections
ICT researchers at work (Photo taken from http://www.ict-peru.org/)
COLLECTION INFORMATION
- Year of founding: 1999
- Role of collection: National collection
- Main objectives of the collection:
To contribute to conservation, enhancement and use of Cacao in Peru, preserving its genetic diversity. To provide promissory material for productivity, diseases resistance and good quality for producers. To make some researches about the improvement of the accessions already collected. To contribute for material research that will allow us to expand genetic base through local, regional, national and international collecting missions. To tend towards genetic material trade for research.
CONTACT DETAILS
Collection Address
Instituto de Cultivos Tropicales (ICT)
Av. Cerro Escalera Mz “C” Lote1, Urb. Las Praderas, Banda del Shilcayo, Tarapoto,
San Martín
Peru
Enrique Arévalo Gardini
ACCESSION INFORMATION
| Total number of accessions: | - 607 |
| Related Theobroma species | - 3 |
| Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) | - 2 |
| Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao | - |
| Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao | - 453 |
| Clonal accessions selected in farms | - 49 |
| Seedling accessions collected from farms | - 10 |
| Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots | - 105 |
| Other | -0 |
Additional notes about the collection
There is a native collection (342 accessions).
More Information
| website http://www.ict-peru.org/ | View |