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this post was submitted on 01 Feb 2024
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Quite an interesting article
'the differences in the flavour notes and other characteristics of coffee varieties from around the world are not down to variations in individual genes, a study has found. Rather, they seem to be mainly the result of wholesale swapping, deletion and rearrangement of chromosomes.'
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'Most genetic variation in living organisms comes from hybridization with other species. However, that is a relatively rare event for C. arabica because it has more than two copies of each chromosome — a phenomenon called polyploidy. Coffea canephora has two copies of each chromosome, but C. arabica contains multiple copies. This makes it much more difficult for arabica to interbreed with other species.'