Results from a global study on the impact of coffee leaf rust on different Arabica varieties has been published ...

An outbreak of coffee leaf rust, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, hit the celebrated coffee-producing region in 2012, and by 2014 it had infected the entire farm. That year El Valle ...

The disease, caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, also de-colours the bush’s leaves from a bright green to a brownish yellow. In the end, the tree loses all its leaves, as well as its ...

And indeed, coffee rust is a formidable problem for coffee lovers and growers everywhere. Coffee rust, or Hemileia vastatrix, is a fungus that specifically grows on coffee leaves. Coffee rust is one ...

CLR fungus, Hemileia vastatrix, causes CLR disease in Coffea plants -- the source of coffee beans. This disease severely affects the plants, resulting in high yield losses and lowering bean ...

The Coffee Rust fungus, also known as "La Roya" or Hemileia vastatrix has devastated Arabica coffee plantations around the world. Gomez-Zapata says chemical applications are almost the only ...

Nutman, Roberts and Bock 1 have produced evidence recently that Hemileia vastatrix uredospores are not liberated into the air from fructifications by wind alone at speeds up to 12.5 miles/hr.

Where there is coffee, there is ‘coffee rust’. But the long stalemate between growers and the fungus behind the devastating disease has broken — with the fungus taking the advantage.

The fungus Hemileia vastatrix strikes a plant on a coffee farm in Aquires, Costa Rica. Edwin Remsberg via Getty Images The agricultural impact of climate change would be a little more ...

arabica with some advantages, it also left it vulnerable to disease, especially coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix). Genetic bottlenecks — drastic population reductions — due to climate ...

Had it not been for a severe outbreak of Hemileia vastatrix in the 1870s, today’s visitors to Sri Lanka would be booking sightseeing tours to the coffee hills. Back then, Ceylon, as the island ...