Cacao was used by the pre-Columbian populations of the Maya and Aztecs, who venerated it as a sacred food. In Aztec culture, ...

Source: Theobroma cacao L. - Plants of the World Online - Kew Science. Researchers analysed pottery vessels from the Santa Ana (La Florida) archaeological site in the highlands of Ecuador ...

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Cacao plants are slated to disappear by as early as 2050 thanks to warmer temperatures and dryer weather conditions. Scientists at the University of California are teaming up with Mars company to ...

Medical herbalist and owner of the Cacao Club, Jordan Cohayney, links cacao’s popularity to growing interest in the potential of plant medicine and psychedelics for self-discovery. But some of those ...

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. Transcriptomes ...