Forcipomyia are only around one to three millimetres in length. This makes them the perfect size to access the hooded, pollen-producing anthers of the cocoa tree's small flowers. But there is a short ...

Conrado Soriano, 63, finds himself transported back to his childhood as he strolls through his nearly 4-hectare orchard, ...

The Huntington Museum of Art began harvesting pods from its cacao plant during the first week of December 2024 to teach staff ...

IN the past, large yield fluctuations within treatments in cacao fertilizer experiments have proved difficult to understand. These fluctuations, frequently occurring between adjacent trees ...

Archaeologists have shed light on the origins of chocolate by tracing the spread of the cacao tree. A new study published in Scientific Reports found that the cacao tree, which grows cocoa beans ...

Researchers hope to breed disease-resistant trees, and finding the cacao flowering gene promises to speed up their efforts.

In findings published June 26 in BMC Plant Biology, the team described the Cacao Gene Atlas, a huge, compiled dataset of replicated transcriptomes the researchers started in 2016.