SUMMARY Taxonomy and History: Hemileia vastatrix Berk. and Broome (Basidiomycota,
Pucciniales) was described in 1869 in eastern Africa and Ceylon as the agent of coffee leaf …

Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. It is also one of the most
globally traded commodities. Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by the biotrophic fungus …

Considerable success has been obtained in the use of classical breeding to control
economically important plant diseases, such as the coffee leaf rust and the coffee berry …

Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series furnishes information on
the availability of germplasm resources that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding …

Background Quantitative data from gene expression experiments are often normalized by
transcription levels of reference or housekeeping genes. An inherent assumption for their …

Accuracy in quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) requires the use of
stable endogenous controls. Normalization with multiple reference genes is the gold …

Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from Coffea canephora leaves and fruits were used to
search for types and frequencies of simple sequence repeats (EST–SSRs) with a motif …

The majority of disease resistance (R) genes identified to date in plants encode a nucleotide-
binding site (NBS) and leucine-rich repeat (LRR) domain containing protein. Additional …

Coffee is one of the most important plantation crops, grown in about 80 countries across the
world. The genus Coffea comprises approximately 100 species of which only two species …

Low positive temperature (chilling) is frequently linked to the promotion of oxidative stress
conditions, and is of particular importance in the coffee plant due to its severe impact on …