leaf rust
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of leaf rust
First recorded in 1860–65
Example Sentences
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A wakeup call came in 2012, when shifts in temperature and rainfall linked to climate change triggered an outbreak of coffee leaf rust, a debilitating fungus, that would affect Latin America for years.
From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2024
Its low genetic diversity means it could be completely decimated, like the monoculture Cavendish banana, by pathogens, such as coffee leaf rust, which causes $1-2 billion in losses annually.
From Science Daily ● Apr. 15, 2024
The primary resistance of the new Starbucks trees will be against coffee leaf rust.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 26, 2023
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.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 17, 2021
He wants to replant hundreds of trees in a fallow area where leaf rust - a fungus that damages flowering - forced him to uproot coffee plants a few years ago.
From Reuters ● May 22, 2019
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