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.

Abstract

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)