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Treatments ‘do not eliminate Xylella from olive trees but can reduce disease symptoms’

Treatments being tested on olive trees in Apulia reduce the symptoms of disease caused by Xylella fastidiosa but do not eliminate the pathogen from infected plants. This is the main...

Plant health

20 April 2016
Vacancy: Head of EFSA’s Animal and Plant Health Unit

EFSA is looking for an experienced manager to coordinate the scientific work of its Animal and Plant Health Unit as well as its Scientific Panels on Animal Health and Welfare, and...

Plant health

6 April 2016
Register to attend CONTAM or PLH plenary meetings

Would you like to attend the next plenary meeting of EFSA’s Panel on Contaminants in the Food Chain as an observer? Or next meeting of the Panel on Plant Health? Registration is open...

Plant health, Chemical contaminants

30 March 2016
Xylella ‘is causing olive disease in Italy’

Xylella fastidiosa is responsible for the disease that is destroying olive trees in southern Italy, a new study has confirmed. Oleander and myrtle-leaf milkwort also succumb to the...

Plant health

29 March 2016
Xylella: host plant list updated

EFSA has updated its database of plants that are reported to be hosts for the plant pathogen Xylella fastidiosa, which has been present in Europe since October 2013. The updated list...

Plant health

9 February 2016
Xylella: further work needed on role of grapevine

Grapevine cannot be ruled out as a potential host plant for the strain of Xylella fastidiosa that is attacking olive trees in southern Italy, EFSA’s plant health specialists have...

Plant health

19 November 2015
EU to fund new research on Xylella

The European Commission is making funds available to boost research into Xylella fastidiosa, a pathogenic bacterium that has been found on olive trees and other plants in southern...

Plant health

18 November 2015
Xylella workshop focuses on research needs

More than 100 scientists and other experts from around the world will meet this week to propose and discuss research initiatives that can further scientific understanding of the ...

Plant health

10 November 2015
Xylella: EFSA evaluates new research

EFSA is assessing the results of experiments carried out in Apulia on the susceptibility of grapevine (Vitis) to Xylella fastidiosa CoDiRO, the strain of X. fastidiosa that has been...

Plant health

15 October 2015

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