Shrubby tree of northeastern tropical Africa widely cultivated in tropical or near tropical regions for its seed which form most of the commercial coffee.
Due to this discovery, the wild relative of Coffeaarabica is now classed as endangered.
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Phenolic compounds are involved in plant response to environmental conditions and are highly present in leaves of Coffeaarabica L., originally an understory shrub.
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In the mid-21st century, rising global temperatures have endangered CoffeaArabica in its indigenous habitats, giving rise to geographically distributed stockpiles and hardier mutant strains.