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The hybrid plants’ attributes include higher productivity and resistance against coffee leaf rust, a fungus that thrives in higher temperatures and rainfall.
—Amelia Lucas, CNBC, 3 Oct. 2024
In Hawaii, Shriner said, farmers are working with World Coffee Research, a nonprofit that partners with the industry, including Starbucks, to to come up with a solution to coffee leaf rust, which has become a serious problem in the region.
—Danielle Wiener-Bronner, CNN, 3 Oct. 2023
Amplifying those troubles in recent years have been outbreaks of coffee leaf rust, a fungus that thrives in warmer temperatures.
—Kate Aronoff, The New Republic, 15 May 2023
Liberica seemed to be more resistant to leaf rust and grew well in warmer lowland regions, unlike fussy arabica, which prefers cool temperatures and higher altitudes.
—WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
Raking and destroying infected leaves can reduce Marssonina and Septoria leaf spot, ink spot and leaf rust.
—oregonlive, 28 May 2022
At the time, the ubiquitous arabica coffee plants were stricken by leaf rust disease, which was annihilating trees in coffee plantations across Southeast Asia.
—WIRED, 16 Jan. 2023
Historical anecdotes suggest stenophylla also might be relatively drought-tolerant, and resistant to coffee leaf rust, Davis says.
—Nathaniel Scharping, Discover Magazine, 7 Oct. 2022
Coffee production still takes place on the Indonesian island today, despite a coffee leaf rust disease outbreak in the 1800s that decimated the industry.
—New York Times, 21 Jan. 2022
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Word History
First Known Use
1859, in the meaning defined above
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“Leaf rust.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/leaf%20rust. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.
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