CIRAD (MPL)

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)

France ( Africa/Europe )

National collections

  • Cacao seedlings (Photo: C. Lanaud - CIRAD)

COLLECTION INFORMATION

  • Year of founding: 1985
  • Role of collection: National collection
  • Main objectives of the collection:

    To be a working collection for cocoa research scientists in Montpellier.
    About 1989-90, it was a quarantine facility for the dispatching of Guianan clones.

CONTACT DETAILS

Collection Address

Centre de Coopération Internationale en Recherche Agronomique pour le Développement (CIRAD)
Avenue Agropolis,
34398 Montpellier Cedex 5
France
 

Curator
Philippe Lachenaud

ACCESSION INFORMATION

Total number of accessions: 138
Related Theobroma species 0
Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) 0
Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao 0
Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao 80
Clonal accessions selected in farms 10
Seedling accessions collected from farms 0
Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots 40
Other 121
   

Additional notes about the collection

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More Information

Les mondes du caco (PDF 3.58 Mb) 1999, Brochure produced by CIRAD
www.cirad.fr/en/research-operations/supply-chains/cocoa/
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