Shaded-coffee: A nature-based strategy for coffee production under climate change? A review

A Koutouleas, T Sarzynski, M Bordeaux… - … in Sustainable Food …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Coffee is deemed to be a high-risk crop in light of upcoming climate changes. Agroforestry
practices have been proposed as a nature-based strategy for coffee farmers to mitigate and …

Genetics of coffee quality

T Leroy, F Ribeyre, B Bertrand… - Brazilian journal of …, 2006 - SciELO Brasil
Coffee quality, in the present context of overproduction worldwide, has to be considered as a
main selection criterion for coffee improvement. After a definition of quality, and an overview …

Fruit thinning and shade improve bean characteristics and beverage quality of coffee (Coffea arabica L.) under optimal conditions

P Vaast, B Bertrand, JJ Perriot, B Guyot… - Journal of the …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Under two contrasting light regimes (full sun and 45% shade) and the optimal coffee‐
growing conditions of the central valley of Costa Rica, production pattern, bean …

The carbon–nutrient balance hypothesis: its rise and fall

JG Hamilton, AR Zangerl, EH DeLucia… - Ecology …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The idea that the concentration of secondary metabolites in plant tissues is controlled by the
availability of carbon and nitrogen in the environment has been termed the carbon–nutrient …

Comparison of bean biochemical composition and beverage quality of Arabica hybrids involving Sudanese-Ethiopian origins with traditional varieties at various …

B Bertrand, P Vaast, E Alpizar, H Etienne… - Tree …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
For buyers of Arabica coffee (Coffea arabica L.) in Central America, elevation and variety are
important indicators of quality. We compared coffee produced by three types of varieties …

Quality of different Honduran coffees in relation to several environments

F Decazy, J Avelino, B Guyot, JJ Perriot… - Journal of food …, 2003 - Wiley Online Library
To better know the cup quality of Honduran coffee, a study was carried out on samples from
52 Arabica coffee plots spread throughout 6 producing regions in Honduras. The aim was to …

Bases for the Establishment of Robusta Coffee (Coffea canephora) as a New Crop for Colombia

LF Campuzano-Duque, JC Herrera, C Ged, MW Blair - Agronomy, 2021 - mdpi.com
Robusta coffee (C. canephora) covers 36% of world coffee production and has strategic
relevance as a beverage that it is produced by thousands of small-scale producers around …

Differential regulation of caffeine metabolism in Coffea arabica (Arabica) and Coffea canephora (Robusta)

C Perrois, SR Strickler, G Mathieu, M Lepelley… - Planta, 2015 - Springer
Caffeine is a metabolite of great economic importance, especially in coffee, where it
influences the sensorial and physiological impacts of the beverage. Caffeine metabolism in …

Strategies for Robusta Coffee (Coffea canephora) Improvement as a New Crop in Colombia

LF Campuzano-Duque, MW Blair - Agriculture, 2022 - mdpi.com
Robusta coffee is mostly grown in Africa and Asia and parts of tropical America, but not yet in
Colombia. The crop has potential in lowland areas of this traditional Arabica coffee …

Advances in genomics for the improvement of quality in coffee

HTM Tran, LS Lee, A Furtado, H Smyth… - Journal of the …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Coffee is an important crop that provides a livelihood to millions of people living in
develo** countries. Production of genotypes with improved coffee quality attributes is a …