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 leaf rust spores spread quickly on the wind and can also be easily moved by humans. An infected plant will display irregular-shaped, yellowish spots on the surfaces of the leaves.

The plants that provide most of the world's coffee ... arabica with some advantages, it also left it vulnerable to disease, especially coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix). Genetic bottlenecks ...

5 Restoring Mount Coffee was not easy. Built in the 1960s on the Saint Paul River as Liberia’s largest hydropower plant, it had been looted and flooded since its destruction during the 1990s.