Will help develop disease-resistant varieties adaptable to climate change Sequence also key to improving coffee quality Aromatic Geisha variety used for sequencing The first public genome sequence for ...

While coffee drinks have enormous variety, there are only four core varieties of the bean itself. These are the ones to know ...

Arabica coffee is a type of coffee plant (the scientific name is coffea arabica). In fact, 60% of the sweet, fragrant coffee we drink comes from the fruit of the arabica plant; the remaining 40% of ...

The vast majority of coffee grown around the world consists of only two species: arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta (Coffea canephora). The dependence on only these two species of coffee is proving ...

Even if a single-origin Colombian coffee bean harvest was roasted and ground in the same way as a batch from Ethiopia, a coffee connoisseur would be able to tell the difference. But the differences in ...

DNA sequencing has confirmed that a lot of the coffee you drink is from one of the least genetically diverse crops in the world, making it particularly vulnerable to extinction. Arabica beans (Coffea ...

The first public genome sequence for Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, was released today (Jan. 13) by researchers at the University of ...