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Biodiversity / snails could prevent coffee rust

By Hicbd
Mon Sep 21 2020 10:30 am

"There’s a parallel control strategy to spraying rust to suppress its efflorescence. That is finding coffee varieties that possess some intrinsic resistance to the pathogen and crossbreeding them to produce new varieties that are less vulnerable to the disease."

URL:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2020/09/coffee-rust/616358/
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2018/10/16/649155664/coffee-rust-threatens-latin-american-crop-150-years-ago-it-wiped-out-an-empire
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/what-is-coffee-rust

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Environment Coffee Biodiversity Snails

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