{"id":192313,"date":"2024-07-04T12:23:44","date_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-discover-new-plants-that-could-lead-to-climate-proof-chocolate"},"modified":"2024-07-04T12:23:44","modified_gmt":"2024-07-04T17:23:44","slug":"scientists-discover-new-plants-that-could-lead-to-climate-proof-chocolate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/07\/scientists-discover-new-plants-that-could-lead-to-climate-proof-chocolate","title":{"rendered":"Scientists discover new plants that could lead to \u2018climate-proof\u2019 chocolate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-discover-new-plants-that-could-lead-to-climate-proof-chocolate3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists have found three new species that are close relatives to the plant from which chocolate is produced\u2014a discovery that could pave the way for climate-proof chocolate. <a href=\"https:\/\/link.springer.com\/article\/10.1007\/s12225-024-10171-x\" target=\"_blank\">The team\u2019s research<\/a> has been published in the journal Kew Bulletin.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/new+species\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">new species<\/a>, discovered in the rain forests of South America, are closely related to Theobroma cacao, the tree that bears <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/cocoa+beans\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">cocoa beans<\/a> which are of tremendous economic importance.<\/p>\n<p>The research team comprising scientists from University College Cork (UCC), the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and New York Botanical Garden say their finding is significant as it indicates that there is much work still to be done in characterizing Earth\u2019s biodiversity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists have found three new species that are close relatives to the plant from which chocolate is produced\u2014a discovery that could pave the way for climate-proof chocolate. The team\u2019s research has been published in the journal Kew Bulletin. The new species, discovered in the rain forests of South America, are closely related to Theobroma cacao, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,39,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-economics","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192313\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}