El trabajo de investigación fue desarrollado en cacaotales Salvador, identificando el estudio más 250 especies artrópodos los cuales pocas insectos se pueden convertir plagas del cacao (Theobroma L.), cuando hace un uso inadecuado agroquímicos sintéticos y mal manejo cultivo, suelo ambiente. En este artículo describen proporcionan fotografías tomadas campo laboratorio que convertirse cultivo Sa...

Shen Yuan et al. [1] highlight the protective cardiometabolic effects of chocolate intake. Without doubt, their work contributes to support evidence about the salutary and wide protective effects of chocolate compounds, particularly flavanols and its derivatives.[...].

In ancient Mayan texts cocoa is considered a gift of the gods: Pre-Columbian populations used chocolate as medicine, too. After the discovery of America, chocolate was introduced in Europe, but Christian Europe looked to this new exhilarating drink with extreme suspiciousness and criticism. From this reaction, the necessity derived to appeal to the reasons of health, with which doctors and scie...

Successful of periodontal treatment is to eradicate biofilm bacteria. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans a Gram-negative bacterium that have been suggested be the main causes disease. Theobroma cacao (cacao pod) medicinal plant has broad range pharmacological effects. The aim this study was assess antibiofilm effect pod extract against A. in vitro. were cultured Brain Heart Infusion broth. C...

Recent evidence indicates that primate populations may persist in neotropical fragmented landscapes by using arboreal agroecosystems, which may provide temporary habitats, increased areas of vegetation, and connectivity, among other benefits. However, limited data are available on how primates are able to sustain themselves in such manmade habitats. We report the results of a 9-month-long inves...

La familia Malvaceae cuenta con especies ampliamente distribuidas a nivel mundial, algunas de ellas, tales como el algodón (Gossypium hirsutum), cacao (Theobroma cacao) y la jamaica (Hibiscus sabdarif fa) son utilizadas en industria agroalimentaria o textil; aun así no todo potencial bioactivo estas ha sido aprovechado, tal es caso H. fa, ya que su mayoría, las semillas consideradas desecho agr...

Colombia, se destaca como país productor de cacao fino y aroma, por lo cual, resulta gran importancia explorar las características físicas sensoriales la diversidad genética existente. Para el presente estudio, seleccionaron 22 genotipos colecciones trabajo con atributos productivos sobresalientes dos testigos comerciales, reconocidos su productividad calidad sensorial; muestras evaluadas fuero...