RAB C15

RABC 15 coffee variety at Gitesi Rwanda, photo by Thompson Owen Sweet Marias Coffee
RABC 15 coffee variety at Gitesi Rwanda, photo by Thompson Owen Sweet Marias Coffee

RAB C15 is a coffee selection recommended for planting in Rwanda. RAB refers to the Rwandan Agricultural Board, and the C15 selection was released in 2015. RABC15 is a selection of SLN6, a population created by Indian coffee breeders at Central Coffee Research Institute and distributed to Indian farmers in the 1970s. It was shared with four African countries (Rwanda, Kenya, Zimbabwe and Uganda) in 2010. SLN6 originated from an interspecific cross between the C. arabica variety Kent and the C. canephora clone S 274 and then backcrossed to Kent.

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