Other Plant Disease -- United States
Coffee leaf rust (CLR) has been tentatively identified on Maui. The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) has received preliminary results from the University of Hawaii identifying the fungus on plants collected from managed and wild coffee. Samples have also been sent to the US Department of Agriculture on the mainland for official confirmation of this federally regulated pathogen.
CLR is one of the most devastating pests of coffee plants and is established in all of the other major
Read more about it at HealthMap Global Disease Alerts via http://healthmap.org/ln.php?7901867&promed&0
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