“…The 143 samples had few matching duplicates (nine groups with two members each) and these were usually within a province rather than across provinces. This internal duplicate matching was lower than that recorded for cacao collected in Belize (Motilal et al, 2010) and for farm selections in Dominica (Gopaulchan et al, 2019), Dominican Republic (Boza et al, 2013), Hawaii (Nagai et al, 2009), Nicaragua (Trognitz et al, 2011, the Huallaga and Ucayali valleys in Peru (Zhang et al, 2006a), Puerto Rico (Cosme et al, 2016) but higher than that reported in one farm in Jamaica (Lindo et al, 2018), Vietnam (Everaert et al, 2017) or for the ICS and TRD accessions in Trinidad (Johnson et al, 2009). Furthermore, an absence of duplicates was reported for 164 trees in Bolivia (Zhang et al, 2012), 93 trees in Tumaco, Colombia (Yacenia Morillo et al, 2014), for 53 trees in Sulawesi, Indonesia (Dinarti et al, 2015), for 220 trees in the Juanjui province of the Huallaga valley, Peru (Zhang et al, 2011), and for 109 trees in Uganda (Gopaulchan et al, 2019).…”