Scientists trace the evolution of cocoa to breed better chocolate

It's kind of hard to imagine life today without chocolate, and now we have a better idea of who we can thank for that. A team of researchers has traced back the origins of the cocoa tree to a single domestication event thousands of years ago, and uncovered other clues hiding in its genome that could help make future chocolate even better.

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Category: Science

Tags:

• Chocolate
• Evolution
• Food
• Genetics
• Genome
• Plants
• Washington State University

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