@inbook{bafba3716ab247f684da3ea591eb5e0b,
title = "Cacao",
abstract = "Theobroma cacao L. (cacao) is a small under-story tree endemic to the lowland rainforests of the Amazon basin (Wood and Lass 1985; Bartley 2005). Cacao was domesticated in pre-Columbian times by the Olmec and Maya civilizations, the latter of which used the seeds ({\textquoteleft}cocoa beans{\textquoteright}) to produce beverages for royalty and religious ceremonies, and as currency (Coe and Coe 1996; Motamayor et al. 2002; Emch 2003). Today, cacao is grown throughout the humid tropics, often in agroforestry-ecosystems with other fruit and commodity crops.",
author = "Guiltinan, {M. J.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2007, Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-540-49161-3_21",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry",
publisher = "Springer International Publishing",
pages = "497--518",
booktitle = "Biotechnology in Agriculture and Forestry",
}