1-million-year-old plant mating give birth to world's most "popular" drink. — Unsplash/FileScientists have found that two different kinds of coffee species cross-pollinated in Ethiopian woodlands 600,000–1 million years ago, giving rise to the plants that produce the majority of the world's coffee. Approximately 60% of the world's coffee comes from Coffea arabica plants, which are currently found in tropical climates all over the world. New findings have indicated when and where the first C arabica plants most likely originated; they were published in the journal Nature Genetics on April 15. Because of the hybridisation process, each offspring has two sets of chromosomes from each parent, resulting in a polyploid genome.

Source: Ethiopian News May 01, 2024 17:10 UTC