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Filtering by: Institution Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Research Repository Creator Al Hakimi, Amin Availability File publicly available Keyword Conservation Resource Type Journal article

2021

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Validating South Sudan as a Center of Origin for Coffea arabica: Implications for Conservation and Coffee Crop Improvement.

Cultivated Arabica coffee outside Ethiopia is plagued by low genetic diversity, compromising disease resistance, climate resiliency and sensory potential. Access to the wider genetic diversity of this species may circumvent some of these problems. In addition to Ethiopia, South Sudan has been postulated as a center of origin for Arabica...

Krishnan, Sarada ; Pruvot-Woehl, Solene ; Davis, Aaron P. ; Schilling, Tim ; Moat, Justin …
Conservation, South Sudan, Coffea, Genetic diversity, Boma Plateau, Simple sequence repeats (SSR), Coffee, and Center of origin