Arabica coffee genome is sequenced Farmer Jay Ruskey, left, and UC Davis researcher Juan Medrano, right, look at coffee cherries at Good Land Organics in Goleta, California. Pic Courtesy UC Davis Researchers at University of California, Davis (UC Davis) have fully sequenced the Coffea Arabica genome and made the sequence public. Coffea Arabica represents about 70% of global coffee production with the balance of around 30% made up of Coffea Canephora, or Robusta. Arabica beans produce much higher quality beans than Robusta, although Read More [...]

Wake Up and Smell the Coffee! Even the smell of coffee alone is enough to improve your test performance! Coffee makes you smarter. It's a fact. Even the smell of coffee alone is enough to make you smarter and improve your scores in maths tests. The Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA has published a study showing that the scent of coffee alone is enough to boost people's performance in the analytical element of the Graduate Management Aptitude Test (GMAT) a Read More [...]