Coffee Bean Gene Mapped

brian6string writes "According to this article at ABC News Online (Australia), scientists in (where else?) Brazil say they have created the first complete map of the genetic structure of the coffee plant and Brazil's Agriculture Minister says the country will now work to develop a 'super coffee.'"

Comments

Not Just Brazil

[martyb]

Brazil is not the only place performing these analyses... check out what they are doing in Hawaii

Anyone here ever actually HAD brazilian coffee?

[Toxygen]

That stuff is strong enough as it is. My boss is from Brazil and the coffee he has from there is powerful stuff. North America doesn't just have the worse beer it seems. They drink it in an expresso sized cup and it's got enough caffeine to keep you going for hours. It's so strong that when I drink it (and I drink a lot of coffee) I need to add the coffee to my sugar!

For a country that puts out the illusion that they're all laid back beach patrollers, they sure do like getting juiced up!

Re:obvious mod

[dacarr]

If you drink five cups of it, yeah, it is.

I think the LD50 of caffeine is right around 8-10 grams, and since one cup of joe on average contains 100 mg caffeine, the LD50 of coffee is roughly 80 cups of coffee. But, your body will burn off caffeine faster than you can drink all that coffee normally, so the only way to get that much caffeine from coffee directly is to pump it straight into your stomach - and even then, you're more likely to get internal injuries and diarrhea than a fatal case of coffee shakes from that.