The fight to save Europe’s olive trees from disease
Monday, March 23, 2020 - 19:21
in Biology & Nature
by Fintan Burke A plant disease spread by sap-sucking insects has been devastating olive and fruit orchards across southern Europe, but scientists are inching closer to halting its spread with the help of insect repelling clays, vegetative barriers and genetic analysis. In the late summer harvest of 2013, olive farmers in the Puglia region of […]