Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. hot cup of coffee surrounded by roaster coffee beans - Narong Khueankaew/Shutterstock While there are many longstanding myths ...

Will help develop disease-resistant varieties adaptable to climate change Sequence also key to improving coffee quality Aromatic Geisha variety used for sequencing The first public genome sequence for ...

Arabica coffee is a type of coffee plant (the scientific name is coffea arabica). In fact, 60% of the sweet, fragrant coffee we drink comes from the fruit of the arabica plant; the remaining 40% of ...

That coffee you slurped this morning? It’s 600,000 years old. Using genes from coffee plants around the world, researchers built a family tree for the world’s most popular type of coffee, known to ...

Help could soon be on the way for coffee lovers who crave the rich aroma and taste but can't handle the caffeine. Brazilian scientists have discovered a naturally decaffeinated coffee plant that won't ...

The vast majority of coffee grown around the world consists of only two species: arabica (Coffea arabica) and robusta (Coffea canephora). The dependence on only these two species of coffee is proving ...

The sequencing of the genome of Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, has now been announced by researchers. The first public genome sequence ...

The first public genome sequence for Coffea arabica, the species responsible for more than 70 percent of global coffee production, was released today (Jan. 13) by researchers at the University of ...