Sentences with phrase «leaf rust fungus»

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To add to the already limited resource of Arabica beans, «Leaf Rust,» an orange - colored fungus that grows on the coffee leaves, has also taken a dramatic toll on the coffee bean supply with expected crop losses of $ 500 million.

Soybean rust, a fungus first detected in the U.S. in 2004, taints leaves and eventually defoliates the plants.

In 1944 Borlaug, trained as a plant pathologist, left the U.S. for Mexico to fight stem rust, a fungus that infects wheat, at the invitation of the Rockefeller Foundation, among others.

The so - called leaf rust, or roya, is a yellow and orange - colored fungus that has swept coffee fields from Mexico to Peru over the past two years, threatening to stunt production and drive up the price of Latin American roasts.