University of Michigan: Can Tiny Invasive Snail Help Save Latin American Coffee?
January 24, 2020
January 24, 2020
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Jan. 24 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- The University of Michigan issued the following news release:
While conducting fieldwork in Puerto Rico's central mountainous region in 2016, University of Michigan ecologists noticed tiny trails of bright orange snail excrement on the undersurface of coffee leaves afflicted with coffee leaf rust, the crop's most economically important pest.
Intrigued, they conducted field observations and laboratory experim . . .
While conducting fieldwork in Puerto Rico's central mountainous region in 2016, University of Michigan ecologists noticed tiny trails of bright orange snail excrement on the undersurface of coffee leaves afflicted with coffee leaf rust, the crop's most economically important pest.
Intrigued, they conducted field observations and laboratory experim . . .