Coffee crops are dying from a fungus with species-jumping genes – researchers are ‘resurrecting’ their genomes to understand how and why

Coffee farming is critical to the economies of several African countries. Wang Guansen/Xinhua via Getty Images – By Lily Peck, Postdoctoral Scholar in Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los Angeles Published: 2026 Feb 17 – For anyone who relies on coffee to start their …