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Monday, July 6, 2009

Chocolate shortage? Better not be!

By Kim Margolis | Monday, July 6, 2009, 05:59 AM

The Ivory Coast could lose one-third of its cacao tree crop this year due to a virus, according to New Scientist magazine.

Here’s why you should care: Chocolate comes from the cacao tree.

Seventy-percent of the world’s chocolate comes from west Africa.

Scientists are working to find genes in the trees which are resistant to disease and find a way to use those to create disease-resistant trees.

Those scientists better be working feverishly.

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