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To meet the increasing need for cost-effective and highly sensitive molecular methods for early detection of harmful plant pathogens two innovative training courses will be organized in the next months. The first course will target the recently introduced digital PCR (dPCR), and will be held in Ljubljana (Slovenia), from October 5th to 7th, 2016. The […]
Researchers used organic substances to stimulate the plant’s development of phytoalexins, which are barriers used in its internal war against the pathogen. By YLENIA GRANITTO Researchers of the University of Foggia in collaboration with Copagri, the confederation of agriculture manufacturers, started a trial in 2015 on olive trees affected by Rapid Complex Desiccation, or so-called […]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has officially launched in Tunis a technical cooperation programme aiming to prevent the introduction and spread in North Africa and Middle East region of Xylella fastidiosa, that is currently devastating olives in the southern Italian region of Apulia. The project, was launched on August, 29 at the […]
Article in original language By FLORENT DETROY En 2015, les prix de l’huile d’olive, en Europe, ont subitement augmenté de 20 % par rapport à 2014. La cause ? La disparition de milliers d’oliviers dans le sud de l’Italie, victimes de la Xylella fastidiosa. Alors que les autorités italiennes peinent à traiter le phénomène, les […]
POnTE NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 13 | August 30, 2016 is available at this link.
The 18th edition of the Congress of the Spanish Society of Phytopathology (SEF) will take place in the city of Palencia (Spain), from 20 to 23 September, 2016. The Conference will include five plenary sessions and three simultaneous conference lectures. More than 300 participants are expected between researchers, industry leaders, investors, policy makers, and stakeholders, […]
By BENJAMIN THOMPSON It’s not just humans and animals that are affected by emerging diseases. In this latest addition to the On the Horizon series, we learn about a poorly understood bacterium that causes significant hardships to farmers across the world. The Apulia region, a thin strip of southeast Italy that stretches out into the Ionian […]
ORIGINAL PAPER Daniele Cornara. Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University of Bari Aldo Moro, Bari, Italy Dr. Anne Sicard. Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Adam R. Zeilinger. Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Francesco Porcelli. Department of Soil, Plant and Food Sciences, University […]
POnTE NEWSLETTER | ISSUE 12 | August 23, 2016 is available at this link.
The Panel on Plant Health of the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) has released an official opinion addressing the question of whether different sequence types of X. fastidiosa exist in Apulia, Italy. The document, entitled ‘Statement on diversity of Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca in Apulia’ has been published on 18, August in the current issue […]
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