Chocolate Engineering

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Project to reveal choc's DNA code
By Pallab Ghosh, BBC science correspondent

The chocolate company Mars has announced that it is to decode the genetic structure of the cacao tree. The research project, which is to be done in collaboration with the US Department of Agriculture and IT firm IBM, aims to improve cocoa production. Scientists hope the Chocolate Genome Project can assist breeding programmes...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7474278.stm