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Draft Genome Sequence of 11399, a Transformable Citrus-Pathogenic Strain of Xylella fastidiosa

GENOME ANNOUNCEMENT  Bárbara Niza (a,b) Marcus V. Merfaa (b), Valquíria C. Alencar (c), Fabiano B. Menegidio (c), Luiz R. Nunes (d), Marcos A. Machado (a), Marco A. Takita (a), Alessandra A. de Souza (a) (a) Instituto Agronômico, Centro de Citricultura Sylvio Moreira, Cordeirópolis, São Paulo, Brazil (b) Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Departamento de Genética, Evolução […]

POnTE Project: resource in English tracks new Xylella research

Begun in November 2015, POnTE Project serves as an excellent resource for English-language readers who want to keep up with new research on Xylella fastidiosa in Europe, along with several other pests that threaten strategic agricultural crops in Europe. In additional to providing a general introduction to Xylella, POnTE Project sends out a highly useful […]

FAO-IPPC opens expert consultation for Xylella fastidiosa and Bactrocera dorsalis complex

FAO International Plant Protection Convention (IPPC) has officially opened an Expert Consultation on two different draft diagnostic protocols (DPs), under the work programme of the Technical Panel on Diagnostic Protocols (TPDP). This year, experts worldwide are invited to submit comments on the protocols under development for diagnosis of Xylella fastidiosa (2004-024) and the oriental fruit fly […]

POnTE Project releases a renewed version of the web portal

POnTE Consortium has released on October, 15 a newly designed version of its web portal www.ponteproject.eu.  The new website has been designed to provide a more user-friendly service and is now full of helpful resources. The home page has been completely renewed in its graphic and content, to offer a responsive and updated information  concerning […]

POnTE presented in Lisbon at the WG Meeting COST Action NNEXT ‘Non-native tree species for European forests’

POnTE EU project was presented at joint WG Meeting COST Action FP1403 ‘Non-native tree species for European forests – experiences, risks and opportunities (NNEXT) Lisbon, Portugal’. The meeting was held in Lisbon (Portugal) from October 3 to 6, 2016 and organized by the Universidade Técnica de Lisboa. During her talk about ‘Non-native tree species , […]

Invasive diseases on ash and broadleaved species in Serbia

The one day (September 28th, 2016) training workshop on invasive diseases on ash and broadleaved species was organised by Faculty of Forestry and Faculty of Agriculture (University of Belgrade) at the Faculty of Forestry in Belgrade. The workshop gathered 53 participants from two Public Enterprises “Srbijašume” and “Vojvodinašume”, but also representatives of National Parks, Institute […]

Assessing the Likelihood of Transmission of Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum to Carrot by Potato Psyllid, Bactericera cockerelli (Hemiptera: Triozidae)

ORIGINAL PAPER  Joseph E. Munyaneza, Affiliation USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, WA, 98951, United States of America Tariq Mustafa, Affiliation USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, WA, 98951, United States of America Tonja W. Fisher, Affiliation USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural Research Laboratory, Wapato, WA, 98951, United States of America Venkatesan G. Sengoda, Affiliation USDA-ARS, Yakima Agricultural […]