Rich is taking a few moments to read “Cacao domestication I: the origin of the cacao cultivated by the Mayas” by MC Motamayor, AM Resterucci, PA Lopez, CF Ortiz, A Moreno, and C Lanaud, published in Heredity in 2002.
This paper describes our work on the genetic structure of Criollo [cacao], and its genetic relationships with other cacao populations…