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 surveillance in Spain.
All the webinars for the Fall semester will be held via Zoom on Tuesdays. The program includes speakers and researchers from Spain, the US, and Italy.
For further information, please contact Leonardo De La Fuente.
The BeXyl consortium partner IPSP-CNR and the Università Politecnica delle Marche, with the contribution of UNAPROL, CRSF "Basile Caramia", local olive oil producers and the Italian professional association of Agronomists, have organized the technical meeting "The...
On 19, 20 and 21 September, the Institute for Sustainable Agriculture of the Spanish National Research Council (IAS-CSIC) held the specialization course "Biosafety for working with plant pathogenic quarantine organisms (PQO): The case of the bacterium Xylella...
On 26 September, the Xylella files Autumn Webinars will host Elio Challita from the MIT Microbotics Lab to learn more about the mechanics of sharpshooter honeydew excretion. The glassy-winged sharpshooter (Homalodisca vitripennis) feeds on plant xylem and is a known...
Fungi are gaining acceptance in Integrated Pest Management (IPM) strategies, which take advantage of non-chemical products and practices to control pests sustainably. Entomopathogenic fungi, in particular, can kill or cause disease in insects. An insect, the...
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...
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,...
