Rust Disease of Coffee.

Abstract

Large in his well-known and delightful book, 'The Advance of the Fungi', has placed coffee rust among the seven major pests and diseases of the last 100 yean. Not only did it cause, and still causes enormous financial losses, but its depredations served to emphasise to agriculturists in the middle of last century the great importance of the study of plant diseases. In addition, it was the subject of one of the earliest scientific investigations of a plant disease by a leading plant pathologist.