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Undoubtfully the best of all pleasures is sipping a hot steamy coffee,especially Madras filter coffee,thanks to Baba Budhan. Indian filter coffee is made from rough ground, dark-roasted coffee Arabica or Peaberry beans.
While there are many chemicals in coffee responsible for its mesmerising aroma,scientists have recently identified genes responsible for coffee quality.
Sucrose is considered to be the crucial to the coffee quality. CIRAD have identified key enzymes of Sucrose metabolism in developing coffee beans.Sucrose synthetase, is responsible for sucrose accumulation in coffee (Coffea arabica) beans,which is present in two forms from genes SUS1 and SUS2.
The use of breeding strategies like Marker- assisted selection and Genetic modification approaches (GMA) for molecular determinism ,coffee EST's (Expressed sequence tags) and more on Genetics of coffee quality here.
This paper on coffee Biotechnology details the Invitro tissue culture methods in coffee,
physiological and biochemical advances made and possiblities of genetic transformations in coffee usind indirect and direct gene transfer.
Enjoy coffee ,reading. It tastes great.