Wrap-up from a Consortium Meeting and Field Trip to Alicante on April 20-22nd, 2022. Alicante is a historic Mediterranean port and the coast around it is a famous vacation place both for Spaniards and for the rest of Europe. The main crops grown in the province of Alicante are citrus...
Xylella Forum 2.0 ES
Miércoles 20 de abril 2022, Alicante. El BIOVEXO Xylella Forum: “Status quo, expectativas e investigación” tuvo lugar en el hotel Maya de Alicante, al que asistieron más de 50 participantes de distintos países. La inauguración del evento corrió a cargo de Stephen Webb, RTDS y coordinador del proyecto BIOVEXO que...
Xylella Forum 2.0
Wednesday, April 20th 2022, Alicante. The BIOVEXO Xylella Forum: “Status quo, expectations and research” took place at the Maya Hotel in Alicante, attended by approximately fifty participants from various countries. The event was inaugurated by Stephen Webb, RTDS and coordinator of the BIOVEXO project, who thanked the attendees for their...
BIOVEXO ready for large scale trials
BIOVEXO is happy to announce that it has just achieved its further two milestones, i.e. it has successfully selected and secured biopesticides for its large-scale field trials against Xylella fastidiosa that will start in March 2022 in olive and almond orchards in Italy and Spain. BIOVEXO researchers Enza Dongiovanni, CRSFA,...
BIOVEXO goes to Mallorca II
BIOVEXO goes to Mallorca II 2nd part of the report from BIOVEXO trip to Mallorca on Dec. 1-3rd, 2021. Mallorca - an island of diversity As an introduction to Mallorca and its diversity, two pictures illustrate it all: Centuries of human settlement - Palma de Mallorca Rural landscape with almond...
BIOVEXO goes to Mallorca I
BIOVEXO goes to Mallorca I 1st part of the report from BIOVEXO trip to Mallorca on Dec. 1-3rd, 2021. Mallorca - a dream island? Mallorca should need very little introduction to most Europeans: a warm Mediterranean island ca. 250 km east of Spain, known for its diverse architecture, including from...
BIOVEXO Scientific poster
Scientific poster for conferences and events explaining the basics of BIOVEXO project.
BIOVEXO goes to Apulia
Biovexo field trip to see the effects of Xylella in Apulia This blog post is a brief wrap-up from a Consortium Meeting and Field Trip to Locorotondo on Oct. 27-29th, 2021. Apulia, a charming region in the heel of Italy, is famous for many things: historical ports and picturesque Trulli...
Modes of action of biopesticides designed to fight Xylella fastidiosa
Modes of action of biopesticides designed to fight Xylella fastidiosa Olive Quick Decline Syndrome is a disease that is devastating olive trees in Apulia, Italy. It is caused by the strain De Donno of Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium which is efficiently transmitted by the xylem-feeding insect Philaenus spumarius (xylem transports...
From disaster survey to design of effective and efficient measures
The objective of BIOVEXO is to develop environmentally sustainable and economically viable plant protection solutions combining Xylella-targeting biopesticides (X-biopesticides) with biopesticides combatting the insect vectors transmitting the bacterium (V-biopesticides) and to make them for ready use in integrated pest management. Whereas in the first months of the project BIOVEXO colleagues...