The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) will organize a webinar next Friday, September 25, in which it will explain the structure and characteristics of its database of host plants of Xylella fastidiosa. This seminar will explain the structure and characteristics…
The Official Journal of the European Union has published the new Regulation of containment and eradication measures for Xylella fastidiosa in Europe, the objective of which is to prevent its introduction and ensure its containment. This new regulation replaces the previous…
According to the newspaper Olimerca, the Italian region of Puglia has given the green light to the planting of olive trees resistant or tolerant to Xylella fastidiosa through the ‘Extraordinary Plan for the regeneration of olive trees Puglia’ for the…
The CSIC researchers hope that the finding will help reduce the elimination of trees at risk, a measure established by the European Union (EU) that causes environmental damage and large losses to many farmers. The Xylella fastidiosa bacteria, one of…
According to the newspaper Agroinformación, the Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Climate Emergency and Ecological Transition of the Valencian Community has denounced the detection of a batch of plant material from the US infected with Xylella fastidiosa in the port…
According to Olimerca, the Italian Olive Oil Consortium, Unaprol, has donated 55,000 olive trees of the Leccino and Favolosa varieties to be planted in the Salento region, severely affected by Xylella fastidiosa and therefore its production of olive oil has…
At the request of the European Commission, EFSA has prepared specific guidelines for conducting topographic surveys on Xylella fastidiosa, according to Oleorevista in its publication. The guide simulates three different survey designs: detection surveys to verify freedom of pests, delimitation…
The European Union is finalizing a major change in criteria in the protocol to combat Xylella fastidiosa, which cuts in half – from 100 to 50 meters – the eradication area against plants infected by the bacteria, a modification that…
The Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development of the Andalusian government, has notified the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the eradication of Xylella fastidiosa in Andalusia after the isolated detection of this bacterium registered in 2018 on…
Italy, one of the countries most affected by Xylella fastidiosa, is unable to control the spread of the bacterium due to the lack of workers due to the health crisis of the Covid-19. Italy denounces the brake on the fight…