XF-ACTORS - H2020 research project on Xylella fastidiosa

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An infrastructure that aims to provide a unique entry point to search for open research data and open access documents on Xylella fastidiosa

European research on Xylella fastidiosa

A book of abstracts collecting all the contributions presented during the 2nd Joint Annual Meeting of the POnTE and XF-Actors projects in Valencia on the emerging plant diseases.

About the project XF-actors

XF-ACTORS is the first research project in Europe entirely devoted to research on the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa.
A multidisciplinary research program implemented by an international consortium of 29 partners. Funded by the European Commission as part of the Horizon 2020 program.

Screening of olive cultivars for searching sources of resistance to Xylella fastidiosa

List of olive cultivars under evaluation, based on the year in which the experiments were started, both in the greenhouse (artificial inoculations) and under field conditions (exposure to infected vectors).

Pictures of the symptoms caused by Xylella fastidiosa in host plants

A collection of pictures showing symptoms associated with the presence of Xylella fastidiosa in susceptible host plants in the different Countries where the pathogen is known to occur.

XYLELLA UPDATES

21/01/2019

Monte Argentario: some plants affected by the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium

Given the dangerousness of the pathogen and the proximity of Tuscany to the infected areas of Puglia, France and Corsica, the Regional Plant Health Service has undertaken a series of actions in the area aimed at the surveillance, monitoring and control of Xylella...

10/01/2019

New finding of Xylella infections in olives in Apulia (southern Italy)

Last December the Regional Plant Authority officially reported the finding of a new outbreak of Xylella fastidiosa in Apulia (southern Italy). The bacterium was detected by serological and molecular tests in an olive tree sampled in the framework of the current...

10/01/2019

First Identification of Xylella fastidiosa in Portugal

On January 8th 2019, the Direção-Geral de Alimentação e Veterinária, the Portuguese Services of the Government, noticed the first identification of Xylella fastidiosa in Portugal (see the annex | .pdf) The identification occurred in an asymptomatic plant of Lavanda...

LATEST NEWS

22/03/2019

New visit of delegates of DG-AGRI of the Xylella-demarcated areas in Apulia (Italy)

Following the visit of last year, on March 21, 2019, Gianfranco Colleluori (Deputy Head of Unit “Italy-Malta”) and Andrea Incarnati (Desk Officer Puglia) of the Directorate-General for Agriculture and Rural development of DG-AGRI visited the area of the Apulia region...

21/03/2019

Apulian Community of Practices: first results

The outcomes of the first Apulian Community of Practices, organized under the aegis of XF-ACTORS project (WP8/Task 8.1) by CIHEAM-IAMB in close collaboration with Federbio, will be presented today in the frame of BIOL 2019 International Prize in Bari, Italy. The aim...

07/03/2019

The Network on Plant Health discussing “Tool kit for surveillance of Xylella fastidiosa in the EU Member States”

A 3-day meeting just started at EFSA in Parma (Italy) with the aim of discussing several aspects related to surveillance and guidelines for Xylella surveys (survey design, risk factors identification, detection and delimiting surveys). The program includes a...

PROJECT PUBLICATIONS

05/11/2018

Xylella fastidiosa in olive in Apulia: where we stand

Authors: Maria Saponari, Annalisa Giampetruzzi, Giuliana Loconsole, Donato Boscia, Pasquale Saldarelli. Published: November 2018 Abstract: A dramatic outbreak of Xylella fastidiosa decimating olive was discovered in 2013 in Apulia, Southern Italy. This pathogen is a...

28/10/2018

Using insects to detect, monitor and predict the distribution of Xylella fastidiosa: a case study in Corsica

Authors: Astrid Cruaud, Anne-Alicia Gonzalez, Martin Godefroid, Sabine Nidelet, Jean-Claude Streito, Jean-Marc Thuillier, Jean-Pierre Rossi, Sylvain Santoni & Jean-Yves Rasplus Published: October 23, 2018 Abstract: We sampled ca 2500 specimens of Philaenus...

28/10/2018

European Research on Emerging Plant Diseases | Book of abstracts

Authors: XF- ACTORS and POnTE * Published: October 24, 2018 Proceedings: This publication collects all the contributions presented during the 2nd Joint Annual Meeting of the POnTE and XF-ACTORS projects in Valencia (Spain), on the emerging plant diseases targeted by...