Calcium Holds the Key to Why Some Cocoa Trees Set Fruit and Others Fail
A new field study of twenty cocoa genotypes in India reveals wide genetic variation in flowering, fruit set, and cherelle ...
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Cocoa Genetics, Not Leaf Nutrients, Drive the Bean Traits Chocolate Makers Prize Most
A two-year study of twenty cocoa genotypes in southern India shows that pod weight, husk weight and bean count—not leaf ...
Scientists Redesign Cocoa Fermentation to Unlock Hidden Health Compounds Beyond Chocolate
A comprehensive review in Heliyon argues that cocoa fermentation, the step that creates chocolate flavor, simultaneously destroys many health-promoting compounds, ...
Hidden Aluminum in Deeper Soil Layers May Be Capping Cocoa Yields in Brazil
A four-year study of 90 plots across 15 farms in southern Bahia links high cocoa yields to surface phosphorus, potassium, ...
Mistletoe quietly drains cocoa trees of key nutrients, Ghana study reveals
Research on Ghanaian cocoa farms shows the hemiparasitic mistletoe Tapinanthus bangwensis selectively depletes nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium and copper in host ...
Overfermented cocoa beans can smell smoky without any smoke at all
Researchers at the Leibniz Institute for Food Systems Biology in Munich have shown that overfermentation of cocoa beans produces smoky, ...
Heavy Rains, Not Just Drought, Are Sinking Cocoa Harvests and Chocolate Supplies
New research from Harvard and the University of Ghana shows that heavy wet-season rains, combined with dry-season drought, drive most ...
Statistical model reveals why Ghanaian cocoa farmers mix rehabilitation strategies on aging farms
A survey of 241 smallholder farmers in Ghana's Oti Region shows that cocoa rehabilitation choices are statistically interdependent and shaped ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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