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LITTLE is known about the genetic variability of the species Coffea arabica in its native home—southwest Ethiopia. Recently, however, seed samples of wild, cultivated and subspontaneous coffees in this region have been gathered by various agriculturists1,2. Several small seedling populations from Ethiopia were sent here in 1952 and 1953, and the genetic constitution of some of them is now being worked out.
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CARVALHO, A. Preliminary Information on the Genetics of Ethiopian Coffees. Nature 183, 906 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/183906a0
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