“From 1.08 million to 543 thousand years agodeep in Montane Lores, Ethiopia, there was an unusual natural hybridization. Two species of coffee – c. Canephora and C. eugenioioides – combine together, causing the first C. Arabica tree.
For us people, these events may seem antique, but in evolutionary categories they are surprisingly recent. As a result, C. Arabica inherited an extremely low genetic diversity – the lowest among all species of the genus Coffea and the lowest among crops (in fact comparable only with Bread wheat). This confined diversity became even more clear when C. Arabica began to spread around the world about 600 years ago, starting with Yemen. “
In the recent desk Special Projects Desk, Tung Nguyen reports about the long history and the latest scientific research of our beloved Arabica Coffee Factory.
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