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.
In early July, the Plant Health Service of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Livestock of the Region of Extremadura in Spain reported the presence of Xylella fastidiosa, subspecies fastidiosa, in a wooded area of Valencia de Alcántara, close...
The European Commission proposed an update of the rules to prevent the introduction and the spread of Xylella fastidiosa in Europe. The new provisions include relaxing specific requirements for monitoring and replanting in the “containment zones,” where eradicating...
UN-FAO and IPCC (International Plant Protection Convention) produced a video entitled 'Sniffer Dogs Saving Olive Trees from a Deadly Pest', telling about the research conducted in Apulia to train sniffing dogs to detect plants infected with Xylella fastidiosa....
The research on disease vectors plays an essential role in modern epidemiology. To better understand how this applies to Xylella fastidiosa, we talked to Alberto Fereres, a BeXyl task leader with more than 35 years of experience in the field. What is the role of...
The European Commission published a draft regulation adding new municipalities to the Apulia containment zone for Xylella fastidiosa. Within the containment zones, EU member states can apply measures that are less stringent than the measures for eradication but are...
The BeXyl work package 8 represents the social science contribution to finding new solutions to manage Xylella fastidiosa outbreaks on the ground. The social scientist at Forest Research UK, Rachel Orchard, tells us more in the following post, which she wrote after...
