SEQUENCING OF COCOA GENOME COULD IMPROVE RELIABILITY AND QUALITY OF THIS KEY INGREDIENT
October 1st, 2008
BY MARK ROWE
THE CHOCOLATE giant Mars has begun work on sequencing the cocoa genome, a move that it says could dramatically improve the health and yields of cocoa growers around the world, guaranteeing food manufacturers with more reliable and high quality supplies. Mars is working on the project with the United States' Department of Agriculture's Subtropical Horticultural Research Substation and IBM. The US$10 million project will take five years.
Mars is providing funds to support the trials, while agreeing to make the research results free and accessible ...
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