Isolated from Declining Olive Trees in Salento (Apulia, Italy): Pathogenicity Trials Give a Glimpse That It Is More Virulent to Drought-Stressed Olive Trees and in a Warmth-Conditioned Environment.

The fungi Botryosphaeriaceae are involved in olive declines in both the world hemispheres and in all continents where this species is cultivated. In Salento (Apulia, Italy), the Botryosphaeriaceae and have been reported as the agents of a branch and twig dieback that overlaps with olive quick decline syndrome caused by subsp. .

subsp. , spp. and the Decline of Olive Trees in Salento (Apulia, Italy): Comparison of Symptoms, Possible Interactions, Certainties and Doubts.

subsp. (XFP), , and other fungi have been found in olive groves of Salento (Apulia, Italy) that show symptoms of severe decline. XFP is well known to be the cause of olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS).

Rapid molecular assay for the evaluation of clove essential oil antifungal activity against wheat common bunt.

Common bunt of durum wheat (DW), Triticum turgidum L. ssp. durum (Desf.

Identification and Characterization of in Branch and Twig Dieback-Affected Olive Trees in Italy and Comparative Pathogenicity with .

For about a decade, olive groves in Apulia (Southern Italy) have been progressively destroyed by Olive Quick Decline Syndrome (OQDS), a disease caused by the bacterium subsp. (Xfp). Recently, we described an additional wilting syndrome affecting olive trees in that area.