Ready to flex your green thumb for a healthier planet? Whether you're a gardening guru or just starting, we have tips for you! Check out #PlantHealth4Life website for insights on responsible gardening & how you can contribute to a sustainable planet! 👉 efsa.europa.eu/en/plh4l/respo…

A fungal plant pathogen!

🚨Vascular streak dieback, an emerging disease of woody ornamentals in the USA: Addition to the EPPO Alert List eppo.int/ACTIVITIES/pla… Photos: Baysal-Gurel Lab

🚨 New fire ant biosecurity zones including Nirimba (Bells Creek) on the Sunshine Coast are now in place to prevent the spread of #RIFA. These zones apply to anyone handling soil, mulch, manure, potted plants and more. Details 👉 loom.ly/gk33EYM #Biosecurity

⁦Corné Pieterse⁩ gave an exciting talk on beneficial bacteria that promote plant growth and elucidated the underlying mechanisms #ippc 2024. There is great potential for microbiome-optimized agriculture!

We are currently working on bacterial leaf streak of maize as this disease although not present in Europe, must be considered a threat. Great video from Tamra Jackson-Ziems describing the disease in Nebraska. #XanthomonasThreats Bacterial Plant Diseases Programme 2020-24

#NewOpportunity to collaborate with EFSA in the domain of commodity risk assessment of ornamental plants. EFSA recently launched a call open to the Competent organisations in Member States. bit.ly/3W4ewc2

📌 3 Three PhD Funded Positions in Forest Genomics and Drought Resistance Breeding 🧬🌲 at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden 🇸🇪... Please share and spread the word! For details visit: wp.me/pbv48T-99t

🔍 New #Xylella fastidiosa detection in Spain 🇪🇸on five plants in a wooded area of the Extremadura Region. No infections in olive or oak trees have been detected so far. bexylproject.org/updates/news/n…

#PrixIJC | 👉 23e édition du Prix Irène Joliot-Curie : les candidatures sont ouvertes ! 🏆 Ce prix récompense des #FemmesEnSciences dans 4 catégories 📅 Date limite : 10 septembre 2024 🔗enseignementsup-recherche.gouv.fr/fr/lancement-d… #WomenInSTEM

Heard of Potexvirus pepini, Potyvirus plumpoxi, Begomovirus solanumdelhiense? In 2021 International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses approved binomial names for viruses. The EPPO Global Database is adopting this change. Acronyms or EPPO codes are still here😉 gd.eppo.int/reporting/arti… #planthealth

Open EFSA call: Development of pest survey cards for Union quarantine pests (EUBA-EFSA-2024-PLANTS-02) - LOT 1 Begomoviruses and their vector Bemisia tabaci 💰: 200 000 EUR ec.europa.eu/info/funding-t… #planthealth #Funding VIRTIGATION - save tomatoes & cucurbits from virus

very relevant update #HLB #surveillance #EU 🍊

Ramener un souvenir de voyage = un moyen de prolonger les vacances ✈️ Mais rapporter des plantes chez vous pourrait nuire à la santé de la flore locale 🌸🦟 Pour en savoir plus sur la réglementation pour les végétaux 👇 shorturl.at/ytoBh #PlantHealth4Life

Honorable Mention—Phytopathology Student Paper Awards! Isabella Yannuzzi et al. found that nighttime UV-C light (200 J/m²) suppresses fire blight in apples and pears with no harm to plant growth. Isabella Magna Yannuzzi Cornell AgriTech Read the full article > doi.org/10.1094/PHYTO-…

A paper by Lytra et al. providing the first data on the occurrence and population dynamics of the fall armyworm Spodoptera frugiperda in Greece is now online in the EPPO Bulletin. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

In the frame of a collaborative project funded by EFSA, UCLouvain is opening two post-doc positions on the impact of #Xylella fastidiosa on forest, agricultural trees and shrubs in temperate climates. Plants EFSA

Interested to work on #Xylella? @UCLouvain_betwo positions as Postdoc Researcher have published to investigate the Diversity of #XylellaFastidiosa on forest and agriculture trees and shrubs in Europe Bragard bit.ly/4g0Eneb

No idea if it's common to invite young students to scientific meetings in #Japan but it was awesome to meet kids like Jo Nagai at #ice2024Kyoto a brilliant still in a larval phase entomologist! I cannot image how good he would be when becoming an imago like us 🦋🦋🦋

Giant viruses as reservoirs of antibiotic resistance genes | Nature Communications nature.com/articles/s4146…