While there are nearly 120 different varieties of coffee plants, arabica and robusta are the only two that can be harvested for their beans. These two varieties couldn’t be more different ...

American coffee drinkers are obsessed with this relatively sweet, fruity coffee. Abigail Koffler is the writer of the weekly newsletter "This Needs Hot Sauce". Her work has been published in ...

On the other hand, robusta tends to be heartier: it can grow at lower elevations, has roughly double the caffeine as arabica, and generally has more resistance to common coffee plant diseases.

The stage is set, and the arena is hot as we embark on a journey to explore the intense coffee roast battle between robusta and arabica ... bestow upon the arabica plants a remarkable terroir ...

Agriculture institutes in coffee-producing regions have been using selective breeding to confer the Robusta traits to Arabica plants, after a rust-resistant plant hybrid was found in Timor ...

This surge means that coffee prices across the board — from fancy beverages made from Arabica beans to robusta-fueled instant ... takes years to grow a coffee plant before its beans can be ...

Researchers have mapped the DNA genome of the Coffee arabica plant, which is the only variety ... debate over which is better — the arabica or robusta bean? They're the two most popular coffee ...

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