Perú boasts a wide diversity of fine aroma cocoa that merits quantifying its total phenols, anthocyanins, and characterize sensory the liquor and nibs of cacao, in two fermentation systems: traditional and micro-fermentation. The studying samples were “Chuncho”, Señorita variety, Achoccha, Pamuco and Común, and SHU-1 variety. For the quantification of total phenols was prepared a hydroalcoholic extract (100mg/mL). To the sensory characterization were chosen thirteen attributes whose results were subjected to multivariate analysis using the principal components method. The amount of total phenols was lower in the liquor compared to cocoa nibs, except in the microfermentation of Señorita and Achoccha variety, and in the traditional fermentation of Señorita variety; being the anthocyanin content higher compared to nibs. The cocoa liquor of Achoccha, Común and Señorita varieties i...

Perú boasts a wide diversity of fine aroma cocoa that merits quantifying its total phenols, anthocyanins, and characterize sensory the liquor and nibs of cacao, in two fermentation systems: traditional and micro-fermentation. The studying samples were “Chuncho”, Señorita variety, Achoccha, Pamuco and Común, and SHU-1 variety. For the quantification of total phenols was prepared a hydroalcoholic extract (100mg/mL). To the sensory characterization were chosen thirteen attributes whose results were subjected to multivariate analysis using the principal components method. The amount of total phenols was lower in the liquor compared to cocoa nibs, except in the microfermentation of Señorita and Achoccha variety, and in the traditional fermentation of Señorita variety; being the anthocyanin content higher compared to nibs. The cocoa liquor of Achoccha, Común and Señorita varieties i...

Cacao breeding programs focus in obtaining cacao varieties with important traits to both producers and consumers. A vital step for plant breeders is the characterization of the genetic material kept in germplasm banks in order to describe its level of diversity, and find interesting traits both morphologically and molecularly. In this way, the investigator will monitor how useful the accessions could be, determine duplications, and manage the bank appropriately. In this study, we aimed to test: the potential of ISSR (Interspread Sequence Repeats) markers to differentiate 46 cacao accessions maintained in Tingo Maria - Perú, and the similarity relationships between the accessions. In this research, the results showed that ISSR, despite its dominance nature, could establish eye-catching associations, such as, the grouping of Trinitario accessions into a common cluster

Cacao breeding programs focus in obtaining cacao varieties with important traits to both producers and consumers. A vital step for plant breeders is the characterization of the genetic material kept in germplasm banks in order to describe its level of diversity, and find interesting traits both morphologically and molecularly. In this way, the investigator will monitor how useful the accessions could be, determine duplications, and manage the bank appropriately. In this study, we aimed to test: the potential of ISSR (Interspread Sequence Repeats) markers to differentiate 46 cacao accessions maintained in Tingo Maria - Perú, and the similarity relationships between the accessions. In this research, the results showed that ISSR, despite its dominance nature, could establish eye-catching associations, such as, the grouping of Trinitario accessions into a common cluster

Cacao breeding programs focus in obtaining cacao varieties with important traits to both producers and consumers. A vital step for plant breeders is the characterization of the genetic material kept in germplasm banks in order to describe its level of diversity, and find interesting traits both morphologically and molecularly. In this way, the investigator will monitor how useful the accessions could be, determine duplications, and manage the bank appropriately. In this study, we aimed to test: the potential of ISSR (Interspread Sequence Repeats) markers to differentiate 46 cacao accessions maintained in Tingo Maria - Perú, and the similarity relationships between the accessions. In this research, the results showed that ISSR, despite its dominance nature, could establish eye-catching associations, such as, the grouping of Trinitario accessions into a common cluster