Genetic engineering to the rescue?
helped Eckroth win second place, it’s unlikely we mortals will ever enjoy its pleasantly light buzz. It’s
tough to grow. Even in the lush soil of Inmaculada Farms in Colombia, where Eckroth’s coffee was sourced, it struggles along. Butis giving scientists clues about how to make a more metabolically friendlyto tweak the way it makes caffeine, and create a half-caff or decaf plant in the laboratory with the same full flavor of the ones found in nature.
to mess with the caffeine-making pathway in a different way. Their plants didn’t grow well either—the missing enzyme had unforeseen deleterious effects.On the growers’ side, coffee farms have been trying to breed caffeine out of coffee for just as long. In the 1990s, Illy Caffe cultivated and roasted a low-caff species calledBut there was trouble. In the plant’s leaves, caffeine acts as a natural pesticide—it wards off insects and therefore prevents insect-born disease.
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