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

The Salento region, in Italy's boot heel, is widely known for its olive oil. But its storied groves face an uncertain future. In 2013, a devastating plant bacterium called Xylella fastidiosa was ...

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.

Xylella fastidiosa is a bacterium native to Central America and it has dangerously spread in many parts of the world. Different Xylella strains are attacking grapes and almond trees in California, ...

The bacteria restrict water movement in plants, causing their eventual death. The European Commission approved greater protections against the spread of Xylella, after the Environment Secretary ...

Xylella fastidiosa – an insect-borne bacterial disease – has already wiped out millions of ancient olive groves in Italy, and is now causing chaos in France and Spain.

Xylella infects a wide range of plants including many popular species grown in gardens, such as cherry, hebe, lavender and rosemary. If the bacterium was found in the UK, all plants within a 100m ...

Xylella fastiodiosa is a bacterium that clogs the xylem (the vessels that carry water from the roots to the leaves) of trees and other woody plants and slowly chokes them to death.Spittlebugs, a ...

The felled trees were infected with Xylella fastidiosa, a bacterium that slowly chokes trees to death. It has already infected 20 of Italy’s 150 million olive trees, ...

Xylella-olive-tree. An olive grove near San Donaci in Italy's Salento plains slowly dies, a victim of a disease believed to be caused by a plant bacterium from the Americas. The disease, known as the ...

The olive tree groves of South Italy are currently facing two grave threats. The first is from Xylella fastidiosa, a potentially devastating bacterial disease—the second from European Union ...