INIA
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones agrícolas
Venezuela ( Americas )
National collections
COLLECTION INFORMATION
- Year of founding: 1994
- Role of collection: National collection
- Main objectives of the collection:
To rescue, conserve and characterize, from a morphologic, agronomic and phytosanitary point of view, “cacao criollos”’s materials that are in danger of extinction. Acquisition of “criollo” hybrids for production and diseases resistance improvement. The distribution of the best materials for producers.
CONTACT DETAILS
Collection Address
Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones agrícolas (INIA)
Campo Experimental San Juan de Lagunillas, vía el estanquillo alto, Mérida
Venezuela
Alvaro Gómez Morales
ACCESSION INFORMATION
| Total number of accessions: | - 872 |
| Related Theobroma species | - 872 |
| Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) | - 2 |
| Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao | - 0 |
| Clonal accessions selected in farms | - 66 |
| Seedling accessions collected from farms | - 806 |
| Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots | - 66 |
| Other | - |
Additional notes about the collection
85% of accessions in the collection are representatives from west Venezuela’s “cacao criollo” and are of a unique kind.
More Information
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