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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.
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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
In the 1870s coffee leaf rust, Hemileia vastatrix, wiped out coffee plants in all of South Asia, completely reordering the colonial agriculture of India and Sri Lanka and transferring coffee production to Central and South America.
—Maryn Mckenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Beyond alleged counterfeiters, his nemeses are rats, invasive plants, twig- and berry-boring beetles and coffee leaf rust, a predatory fungus from 19th century Africa that reached the Big Island last fall.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
But in her research, Aime has been building what is effectively a genetic atlas of coffee-leaf rust, made up of genomic analyses of thousands of fungal samples.
—Maryn Mckenna, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
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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
In the 1870s coffee leaf rust, Hemileia vastatrix, wiped out coffee plants in all of South Asia, completely reordering the colonial agriculture of India and Sri Lanka and transferring coffee production to Central and South America.
—Maryn Mckenna, Scientific American, 19 May 2021
Beyond alleged counterfeiters, his nemeses are rats, invasive plants, twig- and berry-boring beetles and coffee leaf rust, a predatory fungus from 19th century Africa that reached the Big Island last fall.
—Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2021
But in her research, Aime has been building what is effectively a genetic atlas of coffee-leaf rust, made up of genomic analyses of thousands of fungal samples.
—Maryn Mckenna, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2020
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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 3 Jun. 2023.
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