World cocoa production could decline if diseases ravaging South American crops spread to other major cocoa producing regions, UK scientists have warned. Tens of thousands of people have lost their ...

Fungi found in the leaves and trunks of wild Peruvian cacao trees offer the potential for biological control of cacao diseases such as witches' broom disease, according to U.S. Department of ...

image: This is Moniliophthora perniciosa-- Witches' broom disease of the chocolate tree. view more . Credit: Gonçalo A.G. Pereira. In the early 1900s, Brazil was the world's largest producer ...

Witches' broom is a disease of American origin, also caused by a fungus: Moniliophthora perniciosa (formerly Crinipellis perniciosa). The fungus attacks not only the pods, but also the floral ...

Cassava witches’ broom disease is quickly spreading across Northeastern South America, threatening a critical food staple for ...

Ana M. Leiva et al, Ceratobasidium sp. is associated with cassava witches' broom disease, a re-emerging threat to cassava cultivation in Southeast Asia, Scientific Reports (2023). DOI: 10.1038 ...

Bittersweet help is at hand for Bridget Jones and all chocoholics. The world's chocolate supplies, say American government scientists, are under "serious threat".

Now, when there is proliferation of auxiliary buds, you can call it a witch’s broom because the plant manifests the branching effect. But in many cases, you cannot see it, just the yellowing.

NESTL Rowntree said today it was confident that stringent precautions will prevent a disease called Witches Broom causing a world cocoa shortage and pushing up chocolate prices. The disease, so ...