EC15

A first-generation (F1) hybrid originating from a cross between Catimor line 17931 and a wild Ethiopian accession (ET26), held in the coffee germplasm bank at the Centro Agronómico Tropical de Investigación y Enseñanza (CATIE). Line 17931 was selected in Nicaragua in the 1990s from Colombian lines originally derived from a cross between Timor Hybrid and Caturra. The Ethiopian parent, ET26, originates from a collecting mission carried out in Ethiopia by the ORSTOM/IRD collecting mission. In 1991, both parent lines were introduced to Nicaragua at Finca "La Cumplida" in the Matagalpa region, facilitated by CODOCAFÉ, a member of PROMECAFE. Since 2008, CIRAD has led a genetic improvement program in Nicaragua and developed this hybrid in collaboration with the ECOM Group. Plants are propagated clonally using somatic embryogenesis at a tissue culture laboratory located in Sébaco.