Variation and its distribution in wild cacao populations from the Brazilian Amazon

A sample of 64 progenies (320 cacao trees as a whole) from four Brazilian Amazon basins was collected and evaluated on the basis of 15 fruit and seed traits. Nested univariate analyses of variance showed significant variation across progenies and basins. However, most of the variability appeared to...

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Main Authors: Luiz Antônio dos Santos Dias, Júlio Pontes Barriga, Paulo Yoshio Kageyama, Caio Márcio Vasconcellos Cordeiro de Almeida
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Tecnologia do Paraná (Tecpar) 2003-12-01
Series:Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1516-89132003000400003