Word: arabicas
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...best cure may be not chemical but genetic. The Brazilian government has stocked a 25-acre test plot with new varieties of coffee plants, hoping to find some that will be more resistant to the fungus than Coffea arabica, the most popular type grown in Brazil. Unfortunately, researchers have not yet perfected a variety that combines disease resistance with good taste. So far, says Wellman, "the coffee that the fungus loves best is also the one we like best...
...coffee section of the joint U.S.-Guatemalan agricultural development project, had carefully tended for nearly four years. When the cherries were beaten, washed, dried, scraped, and reduced to cafe en oro (the exportable bean), visiting coffee planters could hardly believe their eyes. From the same species of tree, Coffea arabica, they-and most other Latin American producers-had seldom harvested much more than a pound of beans per tree. Cowgill's yield: a whopping...