Worldwide, we drink around 2bn cups of coffee every day. But as coffee plants come under pressure from the climate crisis, sustaining this habit will be increasingly challenging. Recently, a new study provided a glimmer of hope: a climate-resistant coffee plant just as tasty as arabica. Patrick Greenfield asks Dr Aaron Davis about his work tracking it down, and speaks to Dr Matthew Reynolds about developing climate-resistant crops
- Dr Aaron Davis is head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- Dr Matthew Reynolds is head of wheat physiology at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Centre, Mexico
- Read about Davis’s study on Stenophylla coffee here
- Find out more about the Age of Extinction series here
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