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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
Xylella fastidiosa
20 April 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
Xylella fastidiosa
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
Xylella fastidiosa
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
Xylella fastidiosa
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
Xylella fastidiosa
18 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
Xylella fastidiosa
15 October 2015
Xylella: water treatment effective on grapevines
Hot water treatment (HWT) is a reliable method for controlling Xylella fastidiosa in dormant grapevine planting material, EFSA has concluded. HWT is used successfully to eliminate...
Plant health
Xylella fastidiosa
2 September 2015
Xylella: new studies assessed
There is currently no scientific evidence to support the suggestion that fungi rather than the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa are the primary cause of the olive quick decline syndrome...
Plant health
Xylella fastidiosa
17 April 2015
Xylella: risk to EU plants assessed
EFSA has conducted a pest risk assessment and an evaluation of risk reduction options for Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that is affecting several thousand hectares of olive...
Plant health
Xylella fastidiosa
6 January 2015
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