The researchers Maria do Céu Silva and Vítor Várzea visited the Yunnan Dehong Institute of Tropical Agriculture Science – YDITAS (previous Dehong Tropical Agriculture Research Institute - DTARI) in Ruili, China (14^th February – 3^rd March 2017), under the scope of the collaborative project "Pathogenic, cytological and epidemiological studies to achieve coffee varieties with durable resistance to leaf rust at Yunnan Province)”funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (Portugal) and Ministry of Science and Technology of China. These researchers were invited to present the following oral communications:

• “Coffee Rusts Research Center. Sixty two years of research on coffee main diseases” (Maria do Céu Silva, Vítor Várzea)
• “International Cooperation to develop coffee cultivars with resistance to main diseases” (Vítor Várzea)
• “Microscopic studies of Coffee-Hemileia vastatrix interactions” (Maria do Céu Silva)