About Coffea canephora

Coffea canephora, commonly known as robusta coffee, is a species of coffee in the Rubiaceae family. Within its genus, C. canephora has the widest natural distribution which extends west to east from Guinea to Uganda, and north to south from Cameroon to Angola. It is an allogamous diploid flowering plant (2n=2x=22). This reference genome results from a collaboration between Genoscope, IRD and Cirad (UMRs AGAP, DIADE and RPB), funded by ANR, and the Coffee Genome Sequencing Consortium.

Taxonomy ID 49390

Data source Genoscope CEA

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