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 ...

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, ...

Researchers have traced the origins of arabica coffee, the world's most popular type. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, they found that it dates back to approximately 600,000 years ago.

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 ...

Picture this: The year is 2035. Nations have earnestly shifted toward renewable energy sources. But it’s not enough: the climate crisis has made it much more difficult to grow crops — including the ...

It was a secret experiment to develop a coffee plant that could withstand climate change. At the moment, only two coffee species are grown at scale: arabica and robusta. Most coffee drinkers think ...

The West African coffee plant grows at higher temperatures but maintains great flavor. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys ...

That coffee you slurped this morning? It's 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world's most popular type of coffee, known to ...

That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to ...

The researchers, hoping to learn more about the plants to better protect them from pests and climate change, found that the species emerged around 600,000 years ago through natural crossbreeding of ...