Rhodotorula mucilaginosa, a yeast with valuable biotechnological features, has also been recorded as an emergent opportunistic pathogen that might cause disease in both immunocompetent and immunocompromised individuals. Here, we report the draft genome sequence of R. mucilaginosa strain C2.5t1, which was isolated from cacao seeds in Cameroon.

The received date of the article by Yamashita et al. (2012), presented in Journal of Nutritional Science, was given incorrectly. The correct received date is 23 October 2011. The editorial office apologise for any confusion caused. Cacao liquor procyanidin extract improves glucose tolerance by enhancing GLUT4 translocation and glucose uptake in skeletal muscle.

Abscisic acid (ABA) levels were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in developing zygotic embryos of Theobroma cacao. ABA was detected in all embryos tested, with a peak of ABA at levels of 1 to 3 micrograms per gram fresh weight during early maturation. This corresponded to embryos of 10 to 30% dry weight and to early stages of anthocyanin and lipid accumulation.

Tropical deforestation for the establishment of tree cash crop plantations causes significant alterations to soil organic carbon (SOC) dynamics. Despite this recognition, the current Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) tier 1 method has a SOC change factor of 1 (no SOC loss) for conversion of forests to perennial tree crops, because of scarcity of SOC data. In this pantropic study,...

ABSTRACT The witches'-broom disease, caused by the basidiomycete Crinipellis perniciosa, is the most limiting factor for cacao cultivation in Brazil. Trichoderma stromaticum is a mycoparasite of the witches'-broom pathogen of cacao that is currently being applied in the field to manage the disease in Bahia State, Brazil. In this work, molecular and traditional methods were used to study the gen...

areas. But the situation is further complicated by the assessment of amphibian and reptile numbers in abandoned cacao plantations at the reserve edge, where the decline in numbers appears to be much smaller. The researchers considered whether changes in climate which have brought warmer weather to the reserve along with more wet days may have had an impact. The researchers found a rise of more ...

En el ambiente discontinuo de los negocios se necesitan formas empresariales novedosas para reposicionar marcas, conservar segmentos y captar a otros que no han sido satisfechos. este sentido, uso estrategias innovadoras creativas es la alternativa preeminente. Organizaciones como las haciendas del Cacao Chocolate en Tabasco, México, precisan motivar sus clientes hacia disfrute productos servic...

This paper reports a systematic study of the level of flavan-3-ol monomers during typical processing steps as cacao beans are dried, fermented and roasted and the results of Dutch-processing. Methods have been used that resolve the stereoisomers of epicatechin and catechin. In beans harvested from unripe and ripe cacao pods, we find only (-)-epicatechin and (+)-catechin with (-)-epicatechin bei...