CEPEC/CEPLAC

Comissão Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira/Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau

Brazil ( Americas )

National collections

  • Plant nursery at CEPLAC. (Photo: CEPLAC website)

COLLECTION INFORMATION

  • Year of founding: 1967
  • Role of collection: National collection
  • Main objectives of the collection:

    Breeding support

CONTACT DETAILS

Collection Address

Comissão Executiva do Plano da Lavoura Cacaueira/Centro de Pesquisas do Cacau (CEPEC/CEPLAC)
Rodovia Ilhéus Itabuna, 
Km  22   Ilhéus, 
Bahia
Brazil

Curator
Jose Luis Pires

ACCESSION INFORMATION

Total number of accessions: 1302
Related Theobroma species -
Wild relatives of other genera (e.g. Herrania) -
Wild seedling accessions of T. cacao -
Wild clonal accessions of T. cacao 871
Clonal accessions selected in farms 235
Seedling accessions collected from farms -
Clonal accessions selected in breeding plots 136
Other 60

Additional notes about the collection

Germplasm exchange requires a permission from the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Environment.


More Information

Website CEPLAC (in Portuguese)
http://www.ceplac.gov.br/index.asp
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