Collection of wild cocoa genetic resources related to aromatic chocolate quantities in the Ecuadorian Amazon

This collect represents a real rescue of the native trees from this region. Indeed, the forest is progressively diseappearing, due to the bovine farming, or to the cultivation of other crops, and the cocoa genetic resources are diseappering simultaneously. The diversity revealed by the genetic and biochemical analyses show the interest of this material to improve the aromatic varieties for Ecuador.
This prospection will be continued by the exploration of the south part of the Zamora Chinchipe province, not yet explored until now.