The importance of quarantine against coffee rust in Papua New Guinea

Abstract

Coffee rust is an extremely serious disease caused by the fungus Hemileia vasatrix. It has been described in an earlier Plant Pathology Note (see HARVEST Volume 6(1): 42-43. Since the disease could be so disastrous for Papua New Guinea's coffee industry, this note repeats some of the earlier information, and gives extra information about the quarantine measures being used to keep the disease out of this country.