The Genetic Diversity of Cacao and Its Utilization by B.G.D. Bartley

**Manfenix** Dom Jul 31, 2011 8:19 pm

Table of Contents
1. The Background to the Subject: Concepts and a Brief History
2. The Terminology Specific to Cacao
3. The Indicators of Variability
4. The Manifestation of the Diversity and its Conservation
5. The Foundations of the Diversity

Part 1: The Amazonian Region

Part 2: The Circum-Caribbean Region

6. The Cultivated Populations as Secondary Depositories of the Diversity
Introduction

Part 1: South America – Populations Derived from an Amazonian Region Germplasm Base

Part 2: The Circum-Caribbean Region and Neighbouring Territories – Populations that Evolved from a Criollo Germplasm Base

Part 3: Cacao Beyond the Americas – the Export of Diversity to the Old World

7. The Genetics of the Diversity