Italy: Clean Pistachio project testing begins on 150 young pistachio plants

With the planting of 150 young pistachio plants in the land of the IIS “Benedetto Radice” farm, the first experimental phase of the Clean Pistachio project begins, financed by sub-measure 16.1 of the 2014-2020 Sicily RDP. "It is the first time ever that this kind of innovative intervention has been carried out on pistachio crops - underlines the Innovation Broker Marzia Signorello - under the supervision and technical responsibility of the Di3A department of the University of Catania". "We have created a new pistachio plant that will serve to transfer knowledge and innovations in the context of sustainable defense strategies for very young pistachio plants - explains the scientific manager of the project Giancarlo Polizzi, Di3A teacher - also through the use of mycorrhizae and antagonistic microorganisms during the early stages of plant growth. Thanks to the research activity carried out in the territory we have recently identified and described new fungal diseases of the ...