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Oh, No!
Climate change, habitat destruction and other things seem to be putting the the wild relatives of cultivated coffee strains at risk of extinction. This would be a threat to future breeding programs of the currently used cultivars to to enhance their resistant to diseases, drier conditions, and different environments.
Surprisingly, there are more than 100 coffee species.
This Science Advances article (which I think is open access, but am not sure) also gives some interesting history of coffee's history.
Climate change, habitat destruction and other things seem to be putting the the wild relatives of cultivated coffee strains at risk of extinction. This would be a threat to future breeding programs of the currently used cultivars to to enhance their resistant to diseases, drier conditions, and different environments.
Surprisingly, there are more than 100 coffee species.
This Science Advances article (which I think is open access, but am not sure) also gives some interesting history of coffee's history.