Yemenia is a genetic group of Yemeni Arabica named by Qima Coffee in 2020 after fingerprinting work with RD2 Vision. The name means 'the Yemeni mother'.
Yemenia is a genetic group within Coffea arabica identified in Yemen and announced by Qima Coffee in August 2020, after genetic fingerprinting of 137 samples across about 25,000 square kilometers with Christophe Montagnon's company RD2 Vision. The work, submitted to Genetic Resources and Crop Evolution, found a group distinct from known cultivated varieties and from known Ethiopian accessions. Qima describes the name as meaning 'the Yemeni mother'.
A 2022 study by Montagnon and colleagues, reported by Daily Coffee News, now calls this group New-Yemen, previously referred to as Yemenia. It is one of three broad groups found across 148 Yemeni farms, alongside SL34-derived and Bourbon/Typica-derived trees.
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In the Alliance for Coffee Excellence's September 2020 Yemen auction, 15 of 20 lots were identified as Yemenia, and the top five lots scored above 90 points.
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