{"id":31204,"date":"2026-11-04T23:19:15","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/a-devastating-disease-is-threatening-the-worlds-chocolate-supply-but-scientists-may-have-found-the-answer\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T23:19:15","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T23:19:15","slug":"a-devastating-disease-is-threatening-the-worlds-chocolate-supply-but-scientists-may-have-found-the-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/a-devastating-disease-is-threatening-the-worlds-chocolate-supply-but-scientists-may-have-found-the-answer\/","title":{"rendered":"A Devastating Disease Is Threatening the World\u2019s Chocolate Supply \u2013 but Scientists May Have Found the Answer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-devastating-disease-is-threatening-the-worlds-chocolate-supply-but-scientists-may-have-found-the-answer\/\" title=\"A Devastating Disease Is Threatening the World\u2019s Chocolate Supply \u2013 but Scientists May Have Found the Answer\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"518\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Dark-Chocolate-Broken-Bar-777x518.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Dark Chocolate Broken Bar\" \/><\/a>A change to just two DNA letters reduced disease in cacao by about 42% under laboratory conditions, suggesting a possible way to protect future chocolate harvests. Black pod disease is estimated to reduce cacao yields by roughly 30% worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of farmers who grow the crop used to make chocolate. Shifting weather patterns [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A change to just two DNA letters reduced disease in cacao by about 42% under laboratory conditions, suggesting a possible way to protect future chocolate harvests. Black pod disease is estimated to reduce cacao yields by roughly 30% worldwide, threatening the livelihoods of farmers who grow the crop used to make chocolate. Shifting weather patterns &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/04\/a-devastating-disease-is-threatening-the-worlds-chocolate-supply-but-scientists-may-have-found-the-answer\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Devastating Disease Is Threatening the World\u2019s Chocolate Supply \u2013 but Scientists May Have Found the Answer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31205,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}