The Colombian Experience PSB CABI

Variedad Colombia • By the 1990s a third of the coffee area was planted with var.

Colombia, • It’s an unusual variety which consists of a large number (c. 50) of non-identical lines • I.e. not a single clone, but a range of lines derived from different crosses between the Timor hybrid and Caturra • Over time some of these lines developed some susceptibility, but largely they managed to maintain resistance by exchanging some of the lines • There is also a measure of more durable incomplete resistance in the variety