Grafted cacao trees with high productivity. The left picture shows a native cacao tree grafted with the commercial clone CCN-51, which still retains a pod from the original tree at the base of the trunk. (IMAGE)

University of Göttingen

Grafted cacao trees with high productivity. The left picture shows a native cacao tree grafted with the commercial clone CCN-51, which still retains a pod from the original tree at the base of the trunk.

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Grafted cacao trees with high productivity. The left picture shows a native cacao tree grafted with the commercial clone CCN-51, which still retains a pod from the original tree at the base of the trunk. The right picture shows one of the trees grafted in this study with native Blanco de Piura cacao genotypes.

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Teja Tscharntke and Fredy Yovera

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