How to Use leaf rust in a Sentence
leaf rust
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The plants are infected with coffee-leaf rust, a devastating fungus.
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Maryn McKenna,
The Atlantic,
2020-09-16
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And the complexities of the coffee bean — and the leaf rust that's threatening to wipe out coffee farms worldwide — make coffee as interesting of a crop as any other.
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Fox News,
2018-03-20
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Coffee leaf rust is one of the biggest threats to coffee production, but a team of ecologists may have found its potent natural enemy: the Asian trampsnail.
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Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
2020-03-11
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The aim is to inform customers about the challenges these farmers face, including coffee leaf rust and climate change, and the company’s commitment to ethical and sustainably sourced coffee.
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Natasha Bach,
Fortune,
2017-09-29
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At the time, the ubiquitous arabica coffee plants were stricken by leaf rust disease, which was annihilating trees in coffee plantations across Southeast Asia.
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WIRED,
2023-01-16
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Historical anecdotes suggest stenophylla also might be relatively drought-tolerant, and resistant to coffee leaf rust, Davis says.
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Nathaniel Scharping,
Discover Magazine,
2022-10-07
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Beyond alleged counterfeiters, his nemeses are rats, invasive plants, twig- and berry-boring beetles and coffee leaf rust, a predatory fungus from 19th century Africa that reached the Big Island last fall.
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Los Angeles Times,
2021-03-17
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