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…
According to Olimerca, the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa has caused 5,000 jobs to be lost in the Italian olive sector, in addition to the decline in olive oil production that this bacterium has caused since it arrived in the country, which…
The European GEN4OLIVE project has launched its first call aimed at SMEs, in which it will finance activities for the genetic improvement of the olive tree and the development of new technologies that speed up and make this process more…
Ainia has developed a strain of «Escherichia coli» to tackle Xylella fastidiosa. The Olive Health Task Force has designed an integrated strategy for the control of endemic olive diseases, such as verticillium, and emerging diseases such as Xylella fastidiosa. In…
Few issues are of greater concern to the Spanish countryside than the uncontrolled spread of Xylella fastidiosa, as reported by El Confidencial in the article below. It is a bacterium better known as the ‘Ebola of the olive tree’ for…
According to El blog de Agrobank, a new report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the global temperature could rise 2.7 degrees by the end of the century compared to the pre-industrial era average if the current rate…
According to El Mundo, microbiologist Patricia Bernal, winner of a Leonardo grant from the FBBVA, is researching a technique to eliminate the bacterium ‘X. fastidiosa’, which causes the disease that kills olive trees and other crops, using another bacterium that…
According to Olimerca, through a 3D physical model developed by researchers from the Institute of Sustainable Agriculture (IAS), belonging to the Higher Council for Scientific Research (CSIC), it is now possible to know the health status of trees, including olive…
The olive tree is a strategic crop in the Mediterranean area, one of the critical points of climate change. The future will bring drought, heat waves, torrential rains and floods, as well as a changing pattern in the incidence of…