Olive Tree Blight In Puglia

Olive trees often hundreds of years old are completely destroyed by the wasting disease which leaves them looking dehydrated as if burnt.
Olive tree blight in puglia. Agriculture europe food italy plants. It was first detected in. It can infect cherry almond and plum trees as well as olives. A pathogen is destroying italy s olive trees in the puglia region of italy which produces 40 percent of the country s olive oil a bacterium from the new world xylella fastidiosa is infecting.
Cain burdeau courthouse news service. The trees have xylella fastidiosa a bacteria carried from tree to tree by a little bug photo. The disease has almost entirely wiped out the region s olive trees in the two years since it was first detected and threatens the olive crop elsewhere in the country. An olive tree infected with xylella fastidiosa is the sole survivor in what remains of an orchard in the countryside near ostuni in the puglia region of italy.