On April 2, 2024, a seminar organized by the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) was held under the title “Surveillance success: tracing Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca ST53 in Mallorca Island.” This seminar was part of a series of activities focused…
Phytoma is organizing the meeting “The New Scenario of Plant Health in Olive Growing: Control Strategies and Ecosystem Services”9–10 November | DCoop Auditorium | Antequera Olive cultivation is undergoing a profound transformation. Climate change, with its effects on pests and…
On 28 June, the Campus of International Excellence in Agri-Food ceiA3 presents the results of the research project ‘Development of strategies for the eradication, containment and control of Xylella fastidiosa in Spain’ initiated in 2017 and funded by the State…
The president of ASAJA Alicante, José Vicente Andreu, has demanded that the Regional Ministry of Agriculture abandon the strategy of felling healthy almond trees to tackle the Xylella fastidiosa plague that the province has been suffering since 2017. He did…
The Termoxyvid R&D project is coming to an end with important advances in the application of thermotherapy to control the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium on vine rootstocks at an industrial level. Furthermore, it has been possible to ensure that the treatment…
Xylella fastidiosa is a phytopathogenic bacterium that has been introduced in the European Union (EU), causing important yield losses in economically important Mediterranean crops. Almond leaf scorch (ALS) is currently one of the most relevant diseases observed in Spain, and…
The Balearic population has to «coexist» with xylella fastidiosa, as «a bacterium that is already established in the natural environment is impossible to eliminate», Blanca Landa, a researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture of the Spanish National Research Council…
Imagine one day strolling through Gabriel Miró square or Alicante’s Parque de Canalejas and not finding the hundred-year-old ficus trees that determine everything that happens around these central points of the capital. Imagine finding instead a splintered dust, arranged like…
The Xylella fastidiosa plague has affected until October 2021 plots of 31 municipalities of the Valencian Community and the infection has been diagnosed on ten plant samples. To date, the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture of the Higher Council for Scientific…
As Olimerca reports, the threat that Xylella fastidiosa poses to the socio-economic well-being of the Puglia region is underestimated. This has been warned by the presidents of different delegations of Confagricoltura in the area, Confagricoltura Puglia, Confagricoltura Brindisi and Confagricoltura…