A fungal vascular wilt disease (Fusarium xylarioides) that blocks water-conducting tissue in coffee trees, causing progressive wilting, leaf drop and death, and that devastated robusta coffee production in Central and East Africa in successive epidemics through the twentieth century, notably in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1920s and 1930s and again across Uganda, Tanzania and neighboring countries from the 1990s. Because infected trees rarely recover and the disease can persist in an area for years, control has relied mainly on removing and burning infected trees and replanting with resistant varieties bred from surviving stock.
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Coffee, Crops Coffee wilt disease (Fusarium xylarioides) has devastated coffee production across East and Central Africa.
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Coffee wilt disease (tracheomycosis) is a common wilt that results in complete death of coffee trees it infects. This vascular disease is induced by the fungal pathogen known by its teleomorph Gibberella xylarioides. In 1927, coffee wilt disease (CWD) was first observed in the Central African Republic where it developed slowly and went on to cause two epidemics between the 1930s and the 1960s. Coffee wilt disease was first seen in Coffea excelsa.
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A fungal vascular wilt disease (Fusarium xylarioides) that blocks water-conducting tissue in coffee trees, causing progressive wilting, leaf drop and death, and that devastated robusta coffee production in Central and East Africa in successive epidemics through the twentieth century, notably in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the 1920s and 1930s and again across Uganda, Tanzania and neighboring countries from the 1990s.
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