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This was an artefact caused by secondary infection, leaf dieback or mechanical damage.
Positive growth was recorded, as was lost height due to dieback and breakage.
The cause of the dieback was not obvious; pathological studies are planned.
Severe water stress, leading to dieback of the branches, causes the fruit to blacken.
This may lead to dieback of branches when yields are excessive (see below).
We used 2 analysis to compare seasonal patterns of mortality, dieback and resprouting to seasonal patterns of rainfall.
Dieback is spatially patchy and is apparently a consequence of complex interactions between local rainfall deficits, soil conditions and competition between trees.
This experiment was done under exceptionally favourable conditions for cocoa, with very high yields and little pressure from disease, as the scions all showed tolerance of vascular streak dieback disease.
Hemispherical photographs were used to document an opening of the canopy that resulted from the dieback and mortality of large trees during the severe 1998 drought.
Symbols denote periods when dieback was observed: < 1980; 1980s; 1990s.
The growth of affected trees first started to decline in the mid 1980s, although the dieback did not become apparent until several years later.
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