Studies on pod and bean values of Theobroma cacao L. in Nigeria. II. Number of beans per pod, with special reference to the natural pollination process.
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https://doi.org/10.18174/njas.v18i3.17342Abstract
Studies on open pollinated pods harvested from monoclonal, biclonal and polyclonal plots and 4 Amazon seedling trees over various periods showed that season, genotype and their interaction all have a significant effect on number of beans per pod. The character shows a high variability as a result of natural pollina-tion. The excessive variation observed in the number of beans of pods from the clone Na32 in a biclonal plot could be attributed to its self-incompatibility, location and flowering pattern. [For part I see the previous abstract.]-Cocoa Res. Inst. Nigeria, Ibadan. (Abstract retrieved from CAB Abstracts by CABI’s permission)Downloads
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1970-08-01
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