- CATIE — The Costa Rican research centre in Turrialba that keeps a living library of about 2,000 coffee plants — the collection Geisha passed through on its way to Panama, and the source of the F1 hybrids Centroamericano and Esperanza.
- Cenicafé — The research centre of Colombia’s growers’ federation, founded in 1938. It bred Castillo, Variedad Colombia, Tabi and Cenicafé 1, wrote the textbook definition of washed coffee, and built the machines that cut washing water use by 99%.
- CIFC — A small Portuguese laboratory outside Lisbon, founded in 1955, that spent seventy years cataloguing coffee leaf rust and the plants that survive it — and whose catalogue numbers are stamped on the parentage of nearly every rust-resistant coffee variety planted today.
- Fundação Procafé — The Brazilian non-profit coffee research and extension foundation in Varginha, Minas Gerais, built to keep the defunct IBC’s gene bank, laboratories and experimental farms working. Not the same body as the Salvadoran, Puerto Rican or Nicaraguan PROCAFE.
- IAPAR — The Paraná state agricultural research institute that bred IAPAR 59 and the IPR coffee cultivars, rebuilt the state’s coffee sector after the 1975 frost, and has since been merged into IDR-Paraná.
- Instituto Agronômico de Campinas — The São Paulo state agricultural institute, founded by an emperor in 1887, whose coffee breeding programme produced Mundo Novo and Catuaí and selected Caturra — the three varieties most of Brazilian and Central American coffee is built on.
- Jimma Agricultural Research Center — Ethiopia’s national coffee research centre, founded in 1967 and part of the Ethiopian Institute of Agricultural Research. It collected the forest landraces behind the numbered varieties — 74158, 74110, 74112 — that now win Ethiopia’s Cup of Excellence.
- Scott Agricultural Laboratories — The colonial-era Kenyan research station that put the “SL” in SL28 and SL34. Its institutional chronology is now documented — a Kabete station from 1903, the Scott name from 1924, coffee research gone to Ruiru by 1949 — but its namesake and its site details still rest on single unread sources.
- World Coffee Research — The industry-funded nonprofit that breeds new coffee varieties and keeps the variety catalogue this wiki cites on almost every plant.