Gardeners who love chocolate may want to grow cacao and make their own chocolate. Cacao trees grow well here in Hawaii and with room for a small tree where it can have a shady overstory, it’s worth ...

Molecular geneticists have known for about a decade that genomic structural variants can play important roles in the adaptation and speciation of both plants and animals, but their overall influence ...

Two Cocoa Plants in Brazil Are Fighting Back Against a Disease That Ruined Entire Farms ...

The concept of cell-cultured, or ‘lab-grown’, chocolate is gaining momentum amid climate-related supply chain problems and a ...

Researchers used bright X-rays to unveil how cacao trees protect themselves from toxic metal cadmium. Researchers from the University Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, together with the ESRF, the European ...

Twenty-Four Blackbirds founder Michael Orlando is successfully growing cacao, but looking for help to ramp up the project; ...

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Although it’s not the only plant cell culture co working with cacao (a space California Cultured, Celleste Bio, and others are also playing in), Ayana Bio is focused exclusively on mining high-value ...

Researchers at the University of California, Davis, are working with California Cultured, a Sacramento based food-tech ...

The cacao tree (Theobroma cacao), whose beans (cocoa) are used to make products including chocolate, liquor and cocoa butter, may have spread from the Amazon basin to the other regions of South and ...

Researchers from the University Grenoble Alpes (UGA), France, together with the ESRF, the European Synchrotron located in Grenoble, France, used ESRF’s bright X-rays to unveil how cacao trees protect ...