In this May 22, 2014 photo, coffee producer Alexander Illescas shows a coffee leaf that has damage from the coffee rust fungus in Ciudad Vieja, Guatemala. The airborne disease strikes coffee plants, ...

Meet the world's most important coffee disease that you've never heard of - rust fungus, a.k.a. "la roya." Its spores, which can devastate entire coffee farms, forced Sri Lanka to uproot all its ...

FRAIJANES, Guatemala – For years, Hernan Argueta's small plot of coffee plants seemed immune to the fungus spreading elsewhere in Central America. The airborne disease that strikes coffee plants, ...

Juan Robleto, 46, works at the "Santa Francisca" farm where coffee rust led to the cutting and burning of coffee trees and where they are now growing other varieties of coffee and cocoa, as a result ...

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) - The flavor of your daily cup of java could soon be changing as "coffee rust" is causing a big problem with imported beans. The Rogers Family Coffee Company in Lincoln has been ...

You may be holding a cup of it now as you read this. Warm and comforting, coffee is the fuel for many facing an early morning or a much-needed pick me up. In the United States, coffee is the most ...

A new study has analyzed the potential of a bacterium for biological control of the fungus Hemileia vastatrix, which causes coffee rust, a major challenge for Brazilian coffee growers. An article on ...

A sample of a rust fungus collected at a residence in Hilo has been tentatively identified by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service in Hilo as coffee leaf ...