With Hawaii’s $56 million coffee industry at risk from coffee leaf rust, the state Department of Agriculture is considering the use of the fungicide Priaxor Xemium to battle the pathogen that ...

The coffee leaf rust, “one of the most devastating pests of coffee plants,” has been tentatively identified on plant samples collected on Maui from managed and wild coffee in Haiku ...

coffee growers must at times choose between high-yield hybrids or eco-friendly organic farming, weighing sustainability ...

This allowed the team to identify a new combination of genes shared by the plants that are resistant to coffee leaf rust. With the data on the genomes, other useful traits in coffee plants can ...

Coffee berry disease and coffee leaf rust have been blamed for poor coffee harvests in the country.This is aggravated by poor management of the diseases by farmers, which also compromises the quality ...