Transcriptomics of resistance response in Coffea arabica L.

Coffee is one of the most important agricultural export commodities in the world. It represents the he main export resource for some developing countries. Despite the tremendous economic importance of coffee, our understanding of its biology is still very poor and the genetics of Coffea is almost non existing. The reasons for such a low research effort are several and they range from the low economic resources allocated to fundamental genetic research to the complexity of its genome.