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…
Researchers from the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), of the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), in Córdoba, have demonstrated the existence of specific spectral indicators that allow differentiating the stress in trees associated with the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa from…
As Olimerca reports, research is key to confront and stop the advance of Xylella fastidiosa, and for this reason the research body of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Italian Government has announced a research grant with 56,487.20 euros in…