Agricultural Biodiversity Weblog
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It was inevitable, I suppose. There’s now a whole blog dedicated to the “Diffusion of xylella in Italian olive trees.” The latest post comments on an article in Nature which seems to suggest things are beginning to move in normally sleepy Puglia, epicenter of the apocalypse. Here’s hoping. But I still think they should have …
Is anyone looking for resistant material? That’s what we asked back in August last year, at the height of the Italian Xylella olive plague panic. Then in March this year there was news of some 10 cultivars being tested. Now comes this: An experimental olive plot with almost twenty different olive cultivars (24 replicates for …
Not a short-term solution, clearly, but it might be worthwhile starting to screen the larger collections, surely. That’s what we said almost a year ago when the bacterium Xylella started wreaking havoc in the olive groves of Puglia, the heel of Italy. Well, it’s not a large collections of olives that’s been screened, but there …
That whole Xylella fastidiosa attacking olives in Puglia story? Shit just got real. The French are burning trees in Corsica. And the European Commission has come out with a factsheet. This explains that …there are four different subspecies of Xylella fastidiosa and that the strain identified in Apulia is a new genetic variant which has …
Disturbing follow-up to the story of the devastating olive disease in southern Italy: now some of the researchers involved in fighting the epidemic are being blamed for it.