Any chocolate lover can probably tell you that cacao is the most important ingredient in any chocolate confection. But not ...

Soaring temperatures threaten chocolate production. The Theobroma cacao tree, which requires steady warmth between 20°C and ...

The insects responsible for pollinating cacao’s tiny flowers are, themselves, also tiny, in order to access the flower’s reproductive structures. Biting midges from the Ceratopogonidae family and gall ...

ABSTRACT: The study focuses on the filling of pods from ten cacao clones originating from French Guiana in Côte d’Ivoire. Two reference clones (IFC5 and NA32) were used as controls. The parameters ...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports ...

No Valentine's Day would be complete without a box of chocolates to gift your loved one. But experts warn that climate change ...

Humanity's love for chocolate relies on the cocoa tree (Theobroma cacao), which thrives under specific conditions such as high humidity and abundant rain. That's why production of cocoa is limit ...

Cocoa (Theobroma cacao L.) is a vital cash-crop for four to six million small-holder farmers across the tropics, and supports a global chocolate industry valued at over USD 100 billion annually.

Ciscoe Morris explores Downtown Seattle's Amazon Spheres, home to over 1,000 different plant species. #k5evening ...

Each year, lovebirds purchase about 58 million pounds of the stuff for Valentine’s Day, so why not you? After all, chocolate ...