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SEEDS from pods set by natural pollination on a clone which, when self-pollinated, gives 25 per cent albino seedlings1 have been raised in a nursery and scored for this character. The plot is square, 13 × 13 trees, and is surrounded by other cocoa.
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GLENDINNING, D. Natural Pollination of Cocoa. Nature 193, 1305 (1962). https://doi.org/10.1038/1931305a0
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