Life Resilience achieves great results in Portugal and Italy to prevent Xylella

LIFE Resilience, a project co-funded by the European Union (EU) LIFE program, whose main objective is the prevention of Xylella fastidiosa in high density olive and almond farms, continues its work to develop olive varieties that are as tolerant as possible to Xylella fastidiosa and other pathogens. The Institute of Bioeconomy of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR IBE) has made great strides in recent months, having carried out soil sampling to study microbiological activity at the same sites that were collected in the first year. Specifically, the Italian partners worked on the population dynamics of Philaenuss pumarius and Neophilae nuscampestris in olive groves. Two years of data collected on the presence of these two vectors in the olive groves of Pisa, in their different stages, led the researchers to observe that they are more present in the juvenile stages, while the adults disappear in the summer and return in the autumn. In addition, the abundance of Philaenuss ...