Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why
- Written by Lily Peck, Postdoctoral Scholar in Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles
For anyone who relies on coffee to start their day, coffee wilt disease may be the most important disease you’ve never heard of. This fungal disease has repeatedly reshaped the global coffee supply over the past century, with consequences that reach from African farms to cafe counters worldwide.
Infection with the fungus Fusarium xylarioides...