Student

Evelyn Kulesza

Graduate Student
Plant Institute Scholar, President and Event Planner

Advisers: Mark Guiltinan / Siela Maximova

Email evk5405@psu.edu

Overview

Genetic and environmental effects on cocoa butter diversity

Centers & Institutes

Plant Institute

Plant Biology IGDP

The Cacao Gene Atlas is a genomics resource freely available to the public. Researchers can use the atlas to simulate how knocking out or enhancing a gene may influence the chocolate tree, allowing them to test hypotheses without the expense or time of growing the plant. Credit: Mark Guiltinan/Penn State. All Rights Reserved.

June 26, 2024

Researchers compile Cacao Gene Atlas to help plant breeders boost chocolate tree

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