In the Balearic Islands researcher is progressing into the selection and testing of bacterial viruses (bacteriophages, also known as phages) to treat crops affected by Xylella fastidiosa. The BeXyl project has contributed to the early stages of this research. Pilar...

The Xylella Files webinars are back. Next week, on September 12, Maria del Pilar Velasco, from the BeXyl coordinating organization CSIC-IAS, will be discussing her research on the diversity of plasmid content in Xylella fastidiosa and its use in epidemiological...

Researchers make the first steps for a model to calculate the optimum timing for applying control actions against Philaenus spumarius nymphs, thus hindering the X. fastidiosa spread. The spittlebug P. spumarius is the primary vector of X. fastidiosa in Europe,...

In July the EU approved updates to the list of plants known to be susceptible to Xylella fastidiosa (one or more species) and Xylella fastidiosa subspecies fastidiosa, it emerged at the 4th European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa....

Top world scientists discussed the potential risk for X. fastidiosa to establish in temperate European regions, such as Belgium, at the 4th European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa. Although the pathogen's threat to northern temperate areas is...

In the last five years, Xylella fastidiosa spread towards the north of Apulia has slowed down, data presented at the 4th European Conference on Xylella fastidiosa show. More recently, the epidemic in the south of the region attenuated, Donato...