“…Findings on good correlations between the genetic distance of parents (from performance and molecular marker data) and the performance of their hybrids were similar to those reported in cacao and several species (Ghaderi et al, 1984;Shamsuddin, 1985;Cox and Murphy, 1990;Cruz et al, 1994;Ali et al, 1995;Diers et al, 1996;Xiao et al, 1996;Dias and Kageyama, 1997a;Kisha et al, 1997;Lanza et al, 1997;ManjarrezSandoval et al, 1997;Saghai Maroof et al, 1997;Burkhamer et al, 1998). However, there are several reports describing poor correlations (Vaillancourt et al, 1995;Cerna et al, 1997;Helms et al, 1997;Chowdari et al, 1998;Fabrizius et al, 1998;Perenzin et al, 1998;Tenkouano et al, 1998;Bohn et al, 1999;Joyce et al, 1999;Kidwell et al, 1999;Sant et al, 1999). Such contrasting results showed that association between parental divergence and heterosis remained an unsolved question.…”