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Tozer is pleased to be a member of an international research consortium POnTE

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Tozer is pleased to be a member of an International Research Consortium POnTE (Pest Organism Threatening Europe) which is investigating four pathogens: ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ in crops such as potato, tomato and carrot Xylella fastidiosa in olive, grapevine, citrus, stone fruit, ornamentals and landscape trees of high socio-economic importance, Hymenoscyphus fraxineus (anamorph. Chalara fraxinea) and Phytophtora spp affecting broadleaf […]

POnTE contributes to the launch of XF-ACTORS, the new H2020 Project on Xylella fastidiosa

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On 14th-16th of November the IAMB (Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Bari, Italy) will host the Kick-off meeting of the Project “Xylella Fastidiosa Active Containment Through a multidisciplinary-Oriented Research Strategy (XF-ACTORS)”, funded under the H2020 Programme – EU.3.2.1.1. – Increasing production efficiency and coping with climate change, while ensuring sustainability and resilience – Topic SFS-09-2016 – Spotlight on critical outbreak of pests: […]

A workshop on Xylella fastidiosa held in Bari under the “Better Training for Safer Food” EU initiative

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Was held in Bari (Italy),  from 7th to 9th November 2016, a training workshop on “Xylella fastidiosa detection and control” organized within the Better Training for Safer Food initiative of the European Commission. The workshop was part of a wider programme of activities that will involve the EU Member States and neighbouring non-EU countries through […]

Primers for both conventional and Real-Time PCR in diagnosis of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter Solanacearum’

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE K. Fujiwara1,2, T. Fujikawa1 1 Institute of Fruit Tree and Tea Science, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan 2 Kyushu Okinawa Agricultural Research Center, National Agriculture and Food Research Organization (NARO), Japan Abstract ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’ (Lso) is the only Liberibacter species pathogenic to the plants of the Solanaceae such as potato and tomato and […]

Xylella fastidiosa, la peste qui anéantit les oliviers des Pouilles

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Depuis 2013, une bactérie tueuse décime les oliveraies de cette région d’Italie. Les images des photographes Jean-Maric Caimi et Valentina Piccinni rendent compte de cette catastrophe écologique et économique. Philippe Ridet Cet été, les photographes Jean-Marc Caimi et Valentina Piccinni se sont rendus sur la ligne de front aux environs de Gallipoli. Leur but : […]

Sex-specific probing behaviour of the carrot psyllid Bactericera trigonica and its implication in the transmission of ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum’

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ORIGINAL ARTICLE C.A. Antolínez 1, A. Fereres1, A. Moreno1 1Instituto de Ciencias Agrarias (ICA), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC), Madrid, Spain Abstract ‘Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum (Lso)’ is a pathogen of Solanaceae but also causes serious physiological disorders in carrots and celery (Apiaceae). In carrots, this pathogen is transmitted by the psyllids Bactericera trigonica and […]