New Gamma Irradiator Helps Protect Blue Mountain Coffee and Address Threats to Crop Yields and Public Health in Jamaica

August 11, 2025 Blue Mountain coffee is an internationally renowned variety of Arabica coffee that is produced in Jamaica. One focus of Jamaica’s newly-established mutation breeding programme is to counter the harmful effect  of a coffee leaf rust, a fungal disease that has ravaged coffee plants across the Caribbean since an initial outbreak in 2012, … Continue reading New Gamma Irradiator Helps Protect Blue Mountain Coffee and Address Threats to Crop Yields and Public Health in Jamaica