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EFSA has released the official program of the Mallorca International conference on Xylella fastidiosa

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EFSA has released the official program of the “European conference on Xylella fastidiosa: finding answers to a global problem”,  to be held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, on 13‒15 November 2017. The conference is being organised jointly by EFSA, the University of the Balearic Islands, the Euphresco network for phytosanitary research coordination and funding, the EU Horizon 2020 projects POnTE and XF-ACTORS, […]

Recenti sperimentazioni per il controllo di Xylella

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Olivo e Olio 2017  4:25-29. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.833397 Crescenza Dongiovanni 1, Michele Di Carolo 1, Giulio Fumarola 1, Angelo Ciniero 1, Daniele Tauro 1, Francesco Palmisano 1, Maria Rosaria Silletti 1, Paola Pollastro 1, Giuseppe Altamura 2, Vincenzo Cavalieri 2, Massimiliano Morelli 2, Pasquale Saldarelli 2, Donato Boscia 2, Maria Saponari 2, Francesco Faretra 3 1 Centro di ricerca, sperimentazione e formazione in agricoltura «Basile Caramia», Locorotondo […]

Published the complete genome sequence of the olive strain “De Donno” of Xylella fastidiosa

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Researchers of the University of Bari, Aldo Moro (DISSPA), and of the Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council (CNR-IPSP), Bari, with the contribution of Prof. Rodrigo P. P. Almeida (Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, California) have completed the genome sequence of the “De Donno” strain of Xylella […]

Incidenza di Xylella in oliveti con disseccamento rapido

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L’Informatore Agrario 2017  27:47-50. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.830628 D. Boscia 1, G. Altamura 1, M. Saponari 1, D. Tavano 1, S. Zicca 1, P. Pollastro 2, M.R. Silletti 2, V.N. Savino 2, G.P. Martelli 3, A. Delle Donne 4, S. Mazzotta 4, P.P. Signore 4, M. Troisi 4, P. Drazza 5, P. Conte 5, V. D’Ostuni 5, S. Merico 5, G. Perrone 5, F. Specchia […]

Olive quick decline and Xylella fastidiosa in Southern Italy: the state of the art

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Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Mediterranean Phytopathological Union (MPU 2017), Cordoba, Spain, 20-23 June 2017. doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.830600 Boscia, Donato1 ; Saponari, Maria1 1 CNR-Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, Bari, Italy Abstract Oral Presentation The identification in 2013 of an outbreak of Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) in olive groves in the Salento peninsula (southern Italy) resulted in a plant […]

Discovery of Phytophthora ramorum on Japanese larch in Brittany (France)

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Phytophthora ramorum is a fungus-like pathogen which causes extensive damage and mortality to a wide range of trees and other plants. The disease is known in the USA as ‘sudden oak death’ because the pathogen causes disease and mortality to North American native oak and tanoak species in the coastal forests of California and Oregon. In Europe, […]

Complete Genome Sequence of the Olive-Infecting Strain Xf subsp. pauca De Donno

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Genome Announcements, 5(27), e00569-17. https://doi.org/10.1128/genomeA.00569-17 Annalisa Giampetruzzi a, Maria Saponari b, Rodrigo P. P. Almeida c, Salwa Essakhi b, Donato Boscia b, Giuliana Loconsole a, Pasquale Saldarelli b a Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy. b Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection, National Research Council (CNR), Bari, Italy. c Department of […]