Bayman Paul, Serrato-Diaz Luz M
Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras, P.O. Box 23360, San Juan, PR 00931-3360, USA.
Tropical Agriculture Research Station (TARS), U.S. Department of Agriculture-Agricultural Research Service, 2200 P.A. Campos Ave., Ste. 201, Mayagüez, PR 00680-5470, USA.
Insects. 2025 Mar 25;16(4):342. doi: 10.3390/insects16040342.
The coffee berry borer (CBB) is the most destructive pest of coffee worldwide, with damages exceeding $500 M a year and affecting the livelihood of 25 million farmers. Coffee fruit rot (CFR) is described as an anthracnose disease; it can cause up to 80% loss of the crop on susceptible cultivars when conditions favor it. These two serious threats to coffee production have been studied separately, but a link between them was not shown until recently. Several recent studies show that CBB damage is associated with a higher incidence of fruit rot; CBBs carry and fungi, also found in rotted fruits, and can transmit disease to coffee fruits as they bore into them. Previous studies on the relationship between CBB and did not take into account that is involved in coffee fruit rot, so these recent findings shed new light on the relationship. Here we discuss this relationship and its implications, both ecological and practical.
咖啡果小蠹（CBB）是全球范围内对咖啡最具破坏性的害虫，每年造成的损失超过5亿美元，影响着2500万咖啡农的生计。咖啡果腐病（CFR）被描述为一种炭疽病；在适宜的条件下，它会导致易感品种的咖啡作物减产高达80%。人们分别对这两种对咖啡生产的严重威胁进行了研究，但直到最近才发现它们之间的联系。最近的几项研究表明，咖啡果小蠹造成的损害与更高的果腐发病率有关；咖啡果小蠹携带在腐烂果实中也能发现的真菌，并且在蛀入咖啡果实时会将疾病传播给咖啡果实。先前关于咖啡果小蠹与[此处原文缺失相关内容]关系的研究没有考虑到[此处原文缺失相关内容]与咖啡果腐病有关，因此这些最新发现为它们之间的关系提供了新的线索。在此，我们讨论这种关系及其在生态和实际方面的影响。
