Coffee disease risk analysis: How epidemiology knowledge could help in assessing and preventing disease invasion

Abstract

Coffee is under threat of two kinds of diseases: co-evolved diseases, which have evolved with the host in its centre of origin, such as Coffee Wilt Disease, and new-encounter diseases, resulting from the adaptation of a native pathogen to an introduced crop, such as Coffee Berry Disease (only in Africa), and American Leaf Spot Disease (only in America). (Résumé d'auteur