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Identifying key factors affecting coffee leaf rust incidence in agroforestry plantations in Peru

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Coffee leaf rust (CLR), caused by Hemileia vastarix, is one of the most serious diseases of coffee plantations and cause great losses in coffee production. We aimed to examine coffee varieties, shade, age of coffee plants, coffee plant density and soil properties in relation to CLR infection. To do this, we established a total of 75 plots in three agroforestry coffee plantations in the central Peruvian Amazon. We gathered data there in 2011 (dry season) on the presence/absence of CLR; coffee variety; age and density of coffee plants, and also took hemispherical photographs to determine canopy openness. In 2014 (wet season), we again gathered data on the same variables. In 2012, we collected soil samples from a subset of the plots. At all plantations, coffee variety had a significant effect on CLR incidence, with the Catimor variety infected less frequently than Caturra. Coffee plant age had a significant positive effect on CLR incidence. Increasing coffee density also increased CLR incidence for some of the studied plantations/seasons. Comparing those plots from which data were collected in the dry and wet seasons, we found that CLR presence was significantly higher in the wet season. The effect of shade on CLR incidence was not clear. Catimor and Caturra varieties showed opposite trends of CLR incidence in response to shade quantity in most cases (Caturra variety CLR incidence was decreasing with shading increase and Catimor CLR incidence decreasing with decreasing shading). Finally, the soil properties did not affect CLR incidence.

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Acknowledgements

This study was supported mainly by the POPRAR project [CZ.1.07/2.2.00/28.0303] of the Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno and by the company MapGeosolution. The authors are grateful to the Marín, Carrillo and Torre families and to Ms. Selena Contreras for their help and for letting us conduct this study on their plantations. Special thanks also to Petr Kupec, the chief manager of the POPRAR project, to Jorge Mattos, the director of MapGeosolution and also to Jonathan Rosenthal for English correction.

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  1. Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 3, 61 300, Brno, Czech Republic

    Lenka Ehrenbergerová, Aleš Kučera & Daniel Volařík

  2. IFER – Institute of Forest Ecosystem Research, Cs. Armady 655, 254 01, Jílové u Prahy, Czech Republic

    Emil Cienciala

  3. Department of Forest Ecology, The Silva Tarouca Research Institute, Lidická 25/27, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Jan Trochta

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Ehrenbergerová, L., Kučera, A., Cienciala, E. et al. Identifying key factors affecting coffee leaf rust incidence in agroforestry plantations in Peru. Agroforest Syst 92, 1551–1565 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10457-017-0101-x

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