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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. Alicante city | photo pixabay The main crops grown in the...

Hotel Maya | foto Alicante Consejo de Turismo 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...

Hotel Maya | photo Alicante tourist board 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...

Always interested to know what is the day like of the killer bacterium Xylella fastidiosa? Here you are: The bacteria enter the xylem at the insect feeding site, i.e. where the insect vector bites, and moves thereafter passively and actively through the vessels. Type-4 pili-mediated twitching motility allows the bacteria...

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,...

At the occasion of International Day of Women and Girls in Science One of our BIOVEXO Spanish partners, prof. Ángeles Jos Gallego at the Department of Toxicology of University of Sevilla, has discovered recently her talent - or maybe a calling? - to promote science, scientific achievements and scientific career...

1st part of the report from BIOVEXO trip to Mallorca on Dec. 1-3rd, 2021. Mallorca - a dream island? There is no need to introduce Mallorca in a great detail: A warm Mediterranean island ca. 250 km East of Spain, known for its diverse architecture, including from the Muslim period,...

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-long urban development, e.g. in Palma de Mallorca Rural landscape characterized by round hills dotted with beautiful...

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 stone houses, subtropical feelings at its southern beaches, renowned food and wine and, of course, vast olive...

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 water and nutrients from roots to stems and leaves). The...