STiR coffee and tea magazine

STiR coffee and tea 33 Advanced Filling Technologies S P R E A F I C O - S R L . C O M Spreafico è un marchio leader nella progettazione e commercializzazione di macchine automatiche per il riempimento e confezionamento di caffè e solubili in capsula. Ogni macchina Spreafico è costruita e collaudata con la massima cura e precisione. Spreafico is a leading brand in the capsule filling of coffee and other soluble products. Each Spreafico machine is designed, crafted and tested with maximum precision and attention to details. AMAZING TECHNOLOGY ARCHITECTURE Arabica Genome Now Available to Public Every coffee bean contains the secrets of sequencing now openly shared by researchers, growers, and formulators A genetic map of Coffea arabica is now available for all to share. In announcing the news, Giuseppe Lavazza, vice chairman at Lavazza Coffee Company, said "The sequencing of the coffee genome gives us the ability to 'read' the plant and precisely identify its origins as well as determine, for example, the genes that give it a certain resistance to diseases or infections. This could result in a superior quality coffee end product based on objective criteria. Indeed, excel- lent quality is the ultimate goal our company has always pursued, and which is the focus of our ongoing research projects." The sequence is available on the World Coffee Research website (www.worldcoffeeresearch.org/ge- nome) thanks to a public-private collaboration involv- ing the Italian Universities of Trieste, Udine, Padova, and Verona; with the Istituto di Genomica Applicata, IGA Technology Services, and DNA Analytica, in co- operation with illycaffè and Lavazza. It is the first Coffea arabica fully available to the public. "The genome research is not only a brilliant example of public-private sector collaboration," says Andrea Illy, chairman of illycaffè, "but is also an im- portant step to support coffee growers around the world, who are already facing the damages of climate change." The collaboration is an example of working together in a pre-competitive approach, which in turn, will help improve the entire coffee production supply chain," said Lavazza. Tim Schilling, c.e.o. and founder of World Coffee Research explained that "Advanced genetics research is essential to coffee's future as a sustainable crop, and to exploring the thrilling diversity of flavors found in cof- fee. Having access to a whole sequenced genome is an essential precursor to unlocking the potential of ge- netics research to transform coffee production." The access to Arabica coffee genome enables coffee breeders to accelerate efforts to increase the productivity, quality, and profitability of coffee growing worldwide. — Dan Bolton

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