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Coffee Bean Gene Mapped

Posted by timothy on from the scientific-priorities dept.

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.'"

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  1. Not Just Brazil by martyb · · Score: 3, Informative

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

  2. Re:obvious mod by dacarr · · Score: 2, Informative
    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.

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