C. Liberica and C. Excelsea belong to the rarer coffee species in coffee cultivation. Their share in the global market is below 1%. However, climate change, new processing styles and changed customer expectations are giving C. Liberica a new stage. Coffee producers mainly in South East Asia often grow both coffee species along with each other and can not differentiate them. Who knows papers, that can help to find differentiation criteria between the latter two coffee species (including DNA) using phenotype criteria or precursors or comparable methods?
Given the differences in chloroplast and nuclear DNA between Liberica and excelsa (Article Complex evolutionary history of coffees revealed by full pla...
), a DNA barcoding approach could provide a valuable tool for species identification.
Thank you Romain Guyot . Would you know an oversight on different varieties of each species? Are there any described differences in the phenotype that you would be aware of? Looking forward to your reply and to meet you at the International Coffee Convention in Mannheim in October.
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