This is what happened in the case of photographers Jean-Marc Caimi and Valentina Piccinni and their book about the plant pathogen Xylella, which is wreaking havoc on Italy’s olive trees.

The disease has spread about 50 miles north from where it was discovered, and left in its wake devastated olive farmers and dead ancient olive trees. The bacteria invade a tree’s sap system and cut ...

After two years of drought, disease, and soaring prices, the olive oil sector is bouncing back with a strong 2024/25 harvest. Producers are embracing sustainable farming, biodiversity, and ...

Men wearing orange vests march in an olive-growers protest in Rome, Feb. 14, 2018, to demand urgent measures in favor of olive oil producers impacted by hard frosts and Xylella, an olive tree disease.

The tree killer is a bacterium called xylella fastidiosa. It has killed millions of olive trees in Italy and is now threatening Spain and Greece. These countries produce 95% of Europe's olive oil.

News Release 25-Jan-2021 Integrated disease management saves olive trees from Verticillium wilt Peer-Reviewed Publication University of Córdoba ...