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Another installment of Lessons from Plant Pandemics š¦ //thread
The first ingredient in any epidemic? The pathogen. Coffee leaf rust is a dastardly disease of coffee caused by a fungus. Read more about it over at @aps apsnet.org/edcenter/disanā¦
Just like Covid19 is a disease caused by a viral pathogen called SARS-CoV-2, coffee leaf rust is a disease caused by the fungal pathogen H. vastatrix, just one in a massive family of crop-affecting rusts (like SARS-CoV-2 is one of a large family of coronaviruses)
