Coffea canephora, the robusta coffee plant, possesses a relatively small genome size of 710 Mb, which is notably small for an angiosperm. Its genome diverged phylogenetically before a whole-genome polyploidization event suffered by other eudicots.

DOI: 10.1126/science.1255274 September/05/2014

Authors: Pau Avellana Ascanio, Anna Marinello Expósito, Julia Martín Martín, Ona Nieto Rodríguez