Sentences with phrase «of coffee leaf rust»

But Gaitán warns that scientists need to be careful to target the entire range of coffee leaf rust, of which some races are more virulent than others.

Not exact matches

Another factor is the prevalence of various diseases and pests, including coffee berry disease (Colletotrichum coffeanum), coffee leaf rust (Hemileia vastatrix), and coffee berry borer (Hypothenemus hampei).

Thanks to the support of our customers, we're also donating millions of disease - resistant trees to help farmers fight threats like coffee leaf rust.

Its goal — to raise enough funds by the end of 2016 to plant 20 million coffee seedlings to replace trees that are declining in productivity due to age and disease, such as coffee leaf rust.

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.

It was not clear to what extent El Salvador's coffee crop, already blighted by an outbreak of leaf rust, might be affected by the eruption.

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.