Newly sequenced genome reveals coffee’s prehistoric origin story — and its future under climate change

"Their findings, published April 15 in Nature Genetics, suggest that Coffea arabica developed more than 600,000 years ago in the forests of Ethiopia via natural mating between two other coffee species. Arabica’s population waxed and waned throughout Earth’s heating and cooling periods over thousands of years, the study found, before eventually being cultivated in Ethiopia and Yemen, and then spread over the globe."

https://www.buffalo.edu/ubnow/stories/2024/04/albert-arabica-genome.html

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