The Andalusian Agricultural and Fisheries Research and Training Institute (Ifapa) has presented at the Community Plant Variety Office three new varieties of olive tree that are especially recommended in areas with high risk of verticillosis, since they present greater resistance…
As reported by Olimerca, the International Olive Council (IOC) and the University of Córdoba (UCO) have signed an agreement to launch the True Healthy Olive Cultivars (THOC) project, whose objective is to provide olive germplasm banks from the IOC network…
Last Thursday, December 10, the first event of the European project Gen4Olive was held, an innovation action funded by the Horizon 2020 European Framework Program. This project, in which 7 different countries are involved (Spain, Italy, Turkey, Germany, France , Morocco and…
According to the newspaper Olimerca, research on Xylella fastidiosa continues, and to reinforce the European team of scientists studying this bacterium, Leonardo de la Fuente, a researcher at the University of Auburn (Alabama, USA), who has been studying this pathogen…
In the Innovation Section of AGROPOPULAR, they have interviewed Alberto Fereres, Research Professor of the Department of Plant Protection of the Higher Center for Scientific Research (CSIC), about the latest advances in research to control and eradicate the Xylella fastidiosa…
The expansion of Xylella fastidiosa in the Valencian Community has attenuated its growth rate, according to the data of the last update, number 13 since the plague was detected in 2017, on the evolution of the same elaborated by the…
As reported by Olive Oil Times, olive growers are celebrating “a sign of hope and rebirth” after harvesting healthy olives from trees recently reintroduced to the Xylella fastidiosa-ravaged region of Puglia. Farmers from Casarano, a commune located close to Lecce at…
According to Olive Oil Times, one of the most important olive oil producing areas in the southern Italian region of Puglia is once again under attack by Xylella fastidiosa. Italian authorities have discovered a new outbreak of the pathogen in several…
The BIOVEXO project, in which researchers from the Toxicology Area of the University of Seville participate, led by Dr. Angeles Jos, has recently started and has funding from the European Union of 6.6 million euros, with the aim of establishing,…
According to Olive Oil Times, Xylella fastidiosa has been detected for the first time in the southern French region of Occitanie, according to the country’s Ministry of Agriculture, Agrifood and Forestry. The deadly plant pathogen was discovered in an ornamental…