Xylella, the bacteria most closely watched and most feared by European agriculture

Published 2021년 12월 1일

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Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that affects over 500 plant species, has been reported in the Balearic Islands and several regions in Spain, including California and Apulia, Italy. The bacterium causes plant symptoms such as leaf drying and tree death. In the Balearic Islands, the disease was introduced in the 90s and has affected over 100,000 trees and plants, leading to the uprooting of trees that tested positive. The head of the Plant Health Service of the Valencian Community has stated that the final eradication of the plague is very difficult and has prioritized more external work in the demarcated area to prevent its advancement.

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Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterium that can be found in almost 600 different plant species and causes from the drying of the leaves, the wilting of the plant or the tree and, often, its death. In the United States, its greatest victim has been California vineyards for more than a century, while in Italy, the southern region of Apulia has recorded since 2013 the death of millions of olive trees in an area close to 300,000 hectares, which alerted Spain, the world's leading olive oil producer. And in 2016, the first detection of Xylella fastidiosa was reported in the country, specifically in the Balearic Islands, an archipelago that, like the French island of Corsica, is now declared an “infected zone”, which means that the infection cannot be eradicated. bacteria, just check that it does not leave the islands and eliminate the species that test positive. A little later, thousands of cases were detected in the Valencian Community -especially of the traditional dry almond tree in ...

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