Coffee leaf rust on Maui, may be on Hawai‘i Island
November 3, 2020
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From: thegardenisland.com Coffee leaf rust has been confirmed by the
From: mauinews.com The coffee leaf rust, “one of the most
His farm, Finca La Soledad, sprawls across 220 acres. Trees planted to shade the coffee plants—yucca, Inga, mango—stud the landscape, the whole green mass of which is sheathed in a silvery mist. Behind Perez looms Volcan de Fuego…
While conducting fieldwork in Puerto Rico’s central mountainous region in 2016, University of Michigan ecologists noticed tiny trails of bright orange snail excrement on the undersurface of coffee leaves afflicted with coffee leaf rust, the crop’s most economically important pest.
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