From forest to field: perennial fruit crop domestication

AJ Miller, BL Gross - American journal of botany, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: Archaeological and genetic analyses of seed‐propagated annual
crops have greatly advanced our understanding of plant domestication and evolution …

Growing coffee: Psilanthus (Rubiaceae) subsumed on the basis of molecular and morphological data; implications for the size, morphology, distribution and evolutionary history …

AP Davis, J Tosh, N Ruch, MF Fay - Botanical journal of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Morphological and molecular phylogenetic studies show that there is a close relationship
between Coffea and Psilanthus. In this study we reassess species relationships based on …

Coffee plant–pollinator interactions: a review

HT Ngo, AC Mojica, L Packer - Canadian Journal of Zoology, 2011 - cdnsciencepub.com
Coffee (genus Coffea L.) is one of the most critical global agricultural crops. Many studies
have focused on coffee plants and their associated insects. This review will summarize work …

[HTML][HTML] Cryptosexuality and the Genetic Diversity Paradox in Coffee Rust, Hemileia vastatrix

CR Carvalho, RC Fernandes, GMA Carvalho… - Plos one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Background Despite the fact that coffee rust was first investigated scientifically more than a
century ago, and that the disease is one of the major constraints to coffee production …

[HTML][HTML] Expression and Trans-Specific Polymorphism of Self-Incompatibility RNases in Coffea (Rubiaceae)

MD Nowak, AP Davis, F Anthony, AD Yoder - PloS one, 2011 - journals.plos.org
Self-incompatibility (SI) is widespread in the angiosperms, but identifying the biochemical
components of SI mechanisms has proven to be difficult in most lineages. Coffea (coffee; …

Psilanthus mannii, the type species of Psilanthus, transferred to Coffea

AP Davis - Nordic Journal of Botany, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Evidence from several sources shows that Psilanthus is a synonym of Coffea. In order to
finalize the taxonomic placement of Psilanthus within Coffea a new combination is …

Micro‐collinearity and genome evolution in the vicinity of an ethylene receptor gene of cultivated diploid and allotetraploid coffee species (Coffea)

Q Yu, R Guyot, A De Kochko, A Byers… - The Plant …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) is a self‐compatible perennial allotetraploid species (2n=
4x= 44), whereas Robusta coffee (C. canephora L.) is a self‐incompatible perennial diploid …

Coffea and psilanthus

F Anthony, B Bertrand, H Etienne… - Wild Crop Relatives …, 2011 - Springer
Coffee production relies on two species, Coffea arabica and C. canephora, grown in Latin
America, Africa and Asia, but up to 126 species have been described in the Coffeae tribe …

Genetic relationship among indigenous coffee species from India using RAPD, ISSR and SRAP markers.

MK Mishra, S Nishani - Biharean biologist, 2011 - search.ebscohost.com
Three molecular marker systems, RAPD (random amplified polymorphic DNA), ISSR (inter-
simple sequence repeat) and SRAP (sequence related amplified polymorphism), were …

[HTML][HTML] Natural infection of several Coffea species and hybrids and Psilanthus ebracteolatus by the Coffee ringspot virus (CoRSV)

EW Kitajima, CM Chagas, MT Braghini, LC Fazuoli… - Scientia …, 2011 - SciELO Brasil
Coffee ringspot is a minor coffee disease caused by the nuclear type of Brevipalpus mite-
transmitted virus, Coffee ringspot virus (CoRSV). Recently outbreaks of the disease in some …