A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids

Coffea canephora (Robusta) is diploid (2n=22) and C. arabica is tetraploid (2n=44). Both species are highly polymorphic and some of their forms overlap, making it impossible to always differentiate them on the basis of morphology alone. The experiment reported here describes how a number of leaf sur...

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Autor principal: Williams, J.A.
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA) 2025
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Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/13128
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description Coffea canephora (Robusta) is diploid (2n=22) and C. arabica is tetraploid (2n=44). Both species are highly polymorphic and some of their forms overlap, making it impossible to always differentiate them on the basis of morphology alone. The experiment reported here describes how a number of leaf surface characters, such as stomatal frequency and size, epidermal cell count, and venation and mesophyll types, were used to differentiate the two species and their hybrids. A liquid plastic compound, duco cement, was used to make impressions of the leaf epidermis. Possible applications of this technique, which uses plastic impressions of leaf surfaces, to study introgression in populations, and the origin and evolution of C. arabica in particular, are discussed.
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spelling RepoCATIE131282025-07-03T23:22:20Z A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids Williams, J.A. Coffea arabica||Coffea arabica||Coffea arabica||Coffea arabica Coffea canephora||Coffea canephora||Coffea canephora||Coffea canephora Variante||variants||variante||variant Biotecnología||biotechnology||Biotecnologia||biotechnologie Nigeria||Nigeria||Nigéria||Nigéria Sede Central Coffea canephora (Robusta) is diploid (2n=22) and C. arabica is tetraploid (2n=44). Both species are highly polymorphic and some of their forms overlap, making it impossible to always differentiate them on the basis of morphology alone. The experiment reported here describes how a number of leaf surface characters, such as stomatal frequency and size, epidermal cell count, and venation and mesophyll types, were used to differentiate the two species and their hybrids. A liquid plastic compound, duco cement, was used to make impressions of the leaf epidermis. Possible applications of this technique, which uses plastic impressions of leaf surfaces, to study introgression in populations, and the origin and evolution of C. arabica in particular, are discussed. 2025-07-02T15:16:42Z 2025-07-02T15:16:42Z 1972-07-01 Artículo https://repositorio.catie.ac.cr/handle/11554/13128 openAccess en Turrialba Vol. 22, no. 3 5 application/pdf Instituto Interamericano de Cooperación para la Agricultura (IICA)
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A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
title A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
title_full A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
title_fullStr A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
title_full_unstemmed A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
title_short A method for differentiating between Coffea arabica and C. canephora plants and their hybrids
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