Scientists Bring Back Forgotten Plant Species to Produce Climate-Resilient Coffee
Close As climate change further disrupts rainfall and temperature patterns globally, one precious under threat is humanity's most favorite coffee. As such, scientists have pinpointed a coffee-producing plant that could be more durable against the hardships of ever-changing seasons. The plant is called the stenophylla coffee or Coffee stenophylla, a rare, wild type of coffee plant found in Upper West Africa. Compared with the common coffee plant, it's better suited to bear climate shifts. In the study, "Arabica-like flavor in a heat-tolerant wild coffee species," researchers said the variant ...
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