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Biotechnology and the Future of Coffee Production

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Coffee is a crop from tropical countries, which, according to FAO statistics, has annual production around 4 million tons of green beans with sales between 6 to 12 billion dollars (Fig. 1).

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  1. Coffee Research Program, Agronomic Institute of Parana State (IAPAR),, C.P. 481, CEP86001-710, Londrina, PR, Brazil

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  2. Laboratorio de Processos Biotecnologicos, Departamento Engenharia Quimica, Universidade Federal do Parana (UFPR), 81531-970, Curitiba, PR, Brazil

    Carlos R. Soccol

  3. Laboratoire de Microbiologie IRD, IFR-BAIM, Universités de Provence, Case 925, ESIL, 163 Avenue de Luminy, 13288, Marseille Cedex 9, France

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Viniegra-González, G. (2000). Biotechnology and the Future of Coffee Production. In: Sera, T., Soccol, C.R., Pandey, A., Roussos, S. (eds) Coffee Biotechnology and Quality. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1068-8_1

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