Spain: A new olive grove project against xylella fastidiosa
Olive
Almond Kernel
Spain
Published Feb 21, 2022
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The creation of new varieties of olive groves is one of the main objectives of LIFE Resilience, a project that emerged in 2017 with the idea of studying and standing up to xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that threatens to take over crops such as olive trees or the almond tree, mainly.
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The creation of new varieties of olive groves is one of the main objectives of LIFE Resilience, a project that emerged in 2017 with the idea of studying and standing up to Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that threatens to take over crops such as olive trees or the almond tree, mainly. Xylella fastidiosa is transmitted through a "vector" and is responsible for several diseases with serious effects on numerous species of agricultural interest, to the point of causing the "drying" or even "death" of the plant, as explained to Efe the person in charge of LIFE Resilience, Teresa Carrillo. Although the disease was detected in Brazil and the United States years ago, it was not until 2013 that "the first identifications" were made in Europe, specifically in Italy, and from then until 2016 in France and then in Spain, infecting more than a million of olive trees throughout the continent ever since. Currently, Xylella "has slowed down a lot," says Carrillo, although it continues to threaten ...
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