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Keywords: characteristics of the coffee population, coffee leaf rust Hemileia vastatrix, H. coffeicola, introduction of rust into Brazil, records of coffee rust worldwide, epidemiology and the influence of climatic conditions, effect on yield, fungicide spray, breeding for resistance, breeding for major genes, monogenes from C. arabica, transfer of resistance of the physiologic Group A, single hybrids and hybrid cultivars, selection for horizontal resistance