Dangerous disease kills Italian olive trees
Initially, it was not clear what caused the dehydration. Was it a mold? A virus? Or something completely different? Experts visited the olive groves to take samples of the trees and find the cause as soon as possible.
One of those researchers, at a southern Italian agricultural institute, had just returned from a conference in California where he learned more about the plant bacteria Xylella fastidiosa. According to him, the symptoms that the olive growers saw in their orchards looked suspiciously similar to what was discussed in lectures at the congress. When he and his Italian colleagues examined the trees in Apulia more closely, they found that the bacteria affected the wooden heart of these trees. #olivetrees #sickness Dangerous disease kills Italian olive trees
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