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ARS scientists traced the fungus that causes "frosty pod rot" disease in cocoa to its ancestral home and revealed new clues about its genetic diversity and ability to adapt to changes in the environment and its host, the cacao tree. The disease destroys beans from which cocoa, cocoa butter, and chocolate are made. Learn more.

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Photo by Peggy Greb, USDA/ARS
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