Two free webinars will be held in April to help inform Hawaii coffee growers on the potential use of a fungicide to combat coffee leaf rust. The devastating coffee pathogen has been found on Maui, ...

Coffee farmers may have a new tool to use in the near future to combat coffee leaf rust, a threatening pathogen that has been found on Maui, Lanai, Hawaii island and Oahu. With Hawaii’s $56 million ...

Colombia managed to turn things around with significant government intervention, research into the disease and by planting varieties resistant to the fungus. The battle, however, is not over. Coffee ...

The fungal disease — called coffee leaf rust — is caused by the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, and it is decimating coffee crops throughout South and Central America, which accounts for most of the ...

Suzanne Shriner remembers the moment she heard the news that coffee leaf rust had been spotted on the island of Maui, just around 100 miles from her farm on the Kona Coast of the island of Hawaii. It ...

Researchers from the University of Tsukuba and Ibaraki University find a high incidence of coffee leaf rust disease in Vietnam, as well as potential origins and routes of spread, and a close genetic ...