Partitioning of gross rainfall into throughfall, stemflow and rainfall interception was assessed in Costa Rica during two rainy seasons (mean annual rainfall of 2900 mm) in two coffee systems: (1) a monoculture (MC) and (2) an agroforestry system (AFS) including Inga densiflora as the associated shade tree species. Coffee architecture, not LAI, app...
In this project, the scope for product specific rules for carbon footprinting of (green) coffee is investigated and a proposal is drafted for further work toward actual definition and implementation of such a standard.
The mountain chain of the Sierra Madre de Chiapas in southern Mexico is globally significant for its biodiversity and is one of the most important coffee production areas of Mexico. It provides water for several municipalities and its biosphere reserves are important tourist attractions. Much of the forest cover outside the core protected areas is ...
Recent studies on the circumscription of the tribe Coffeeae (Rubiaceae) revealed a weakly supported clade containing Tricalysia A. Rich. and the allied genera Argocoffeopsis Lebrun, Calycosiphonia Pierre ex Robbr., Belonophora Hook. f., Diplospora DC., Discospermum Dalzell, Nostolachma T. Durand, and Xantonnea Pierre ex Pit. The phylogenetic relati...
The extensively cultivated coffee species Coffea arabica is an allotetraploid resulting from a recent hybridization between two wild diploid Coffea species. We describe in this paper the first identification and functional assessment of homoeologous gene copies in C. arabica. When cloning the CaWRKY1 gene encoding a transcription factor of the WRKY...
Published in Tree Genetics & Genomes
The extensively cultivated coffee species Coffea arabica is an allotetraploid resulting from a recent hybridization between two wild diploid Coffea species. We describe in this paper the first identification and functional assessment of homoeologous gene copies in C. arabica. When cloning the CaWRKY1 gene encoding a transcription factor of the WRKY...
The extensively cultivated coffee species Coffea arabica is an allotetraploid resulting from a recent hybridization between two wild diploid Coffea species. We describe in this paper the first identification and functional assessment of homoeologous gene copies in C. arabica. When cloning the CaWRKY1 gene encoding a transcription factor of the WRKY...
The extensively cultivated coffee species Coffea arabica is an allotetraploid resulting from a recent hybridization between two wild diploid Coffea species. We describe in this paper the first identification and functional assessment of homoeologous gene copies in C. arabica. When cloning the CaWRKY1 gene encoding a transcription factor of the WRKY...
