Meet the world's most important coffee disease that you've never heard of - rust fungus, a.k.a. "la roya." Its spores, which can devastate entire coffee farms, forced Sri Lanka to uproot all its ...

In this May 22, 2014 photo, coffee producer Alexander Illescas shows a coffee leaf that has damage from the coffee rust fungus in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala. The airborne disease strikes coffee plants, ...

The fungus, known as coffee rust, attacks the coffee plant's leaves with brown and red spots that look like rust. The fungus forces the coffee plant, coffea, to produce less fruit which encases the ...

A new study has analyzed the potential of a bacterium for biological control of the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, which causes coffee rust, a major challenge for Brazilian coffee growers. An article on ...

A sample of a rust fungus collected at a residence in Hilo has been tentatively identified by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service in Hilo as coffee leaf ...

Coffee rust, la roya in Spanish, showed up for the first time in Central America in the 1970s. But this epidemic, which began in late 2012, is by far the worst the region has seen. January is usually ...

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An epidemic of coffee rust, caused by a pathogenic fungus, has ravaged Latin American plantations over the past couple of years, and finally scientists might have an answer to control this ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The flavor of your daily cup of java could soon be changing as "coffee rust" is causing a big problem with imported beans. The Rogers Family Coffee Company in Lincoln has been ...

A coalition that includes the U.S. Agency for International Development and Starbucks launched a $23 million fund to help Latin America farmers fight coffee rust. The move is part of a growing ...

If you are unfamiliar with coffee rust, some rather unappealing images may come to mind. And indeed, coffee rust is a formidable problem for coffee lovers and growers everywhere. Coffee rust, or ...