Researchers have found a high incidence of coffee leaf rust (CLR) disease in Vietnam, the world's second-largest coffee producer. Potential origins and migration routes were revealed, as well as a ...

Colombia managed to turn things around with significant government intervention, research into the disease and by planting varieties resistant to the fungus. The battle, however, is not over. Coffee ...

Arabica coffee is the most economically important coffee globally and accounts for 60% of coffee products worldwide. But the plants it hails from are vulnerable to a disease that, in the 1800s, ...

As the only state that produces coffee, including the iconic Kona variety, Hawaii growers and agricultural officials were alarmed when coffee leaf rust began spreading rapidly through the Islands. The ...

This video, put out by the Canadian Van Houtte Coffee company, shows how coffee rust disease, or la roya in Spanish, affects coffee producers in the third world. Coffee rust is a fungus that infects ...

With looming threats of coffee leaf rust to farmers’ yields, Purdue University mycologist Catherine Aime is working to protect this staple of daily lives and the economies of areas throughout the ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and Ibaraki University find a high incidence of coffee leaf rust disease in Vietnam, as well as potential origins and routes of spread, and a close genetic ...