The development of an app capable of identifying olive varieties using photos of olive pits is the ultimate goal of "OliVaR," a neural network trained with the largest photographic database of olive fruit endocarps, which ...
Biotechnology
Jan 31, 2024
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Since 2013, over 20 million olive trees in Italy have succumbed to a devastating plant disease. The same disease now threatens many more plant species, across several countries, with the same fate.
Plants & Animals
Nov 16, 2023
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After analyzing the relationships between the dominant species of Colletotrichum in Spain and Portugal, a study by the Department of Agronomy at the University of Córdoba suggests that pathogens, once established, are difficult ...
Ecology
Jun 7, 2023
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Despite not being an essential element for plant growth, silicon increases plants' tolerance of biotic stresses, such as pests and diseases; and abiotic ones, such as drought and salinity. The effects of this element, the ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 19, 2023
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Forests help counter global warming, but they are also threatened by it. Many tree species struggled this past summer as much of Europe was hit by heat waves and a severe drought—thought to be the worst in 500 years.
Environment
Oct 16, 2022
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Scientists in Sardinia are hoping a thousand-year-old olive tree nearly destroyed by recent fires can be saved, mobilising volunteers to stand guard around the remains of the ancient tree.
Environment
Jul 30, 2021
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Guillem Pérez Jordà and Salvador Pardo Gordó, researchers from the Department of Prehistory, Archaeology and Ancient History of the University of València, sign an article in the Journal of Archaeological Science Reports ...
Archaeology
May 19, 2021
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France's agriculture ministry said Friday that it had detected its first cases of a bacterium that has been devastating olive trees in Italy and elsewhere in the Mediterranean basin.
Ecology
Sep 6, 2019
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Working in an arid Italian field of crumbly soil, agronomists are battling a rampant bacterium that has already infected millions of olive trees and could threaten the entire Mediterranean basin.
Environment
Jul 31, 2019
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A team at the University of Cordoba has examined the link between the presence of beneficial organisms in plant roots to their response to iron deficiency.
Plants & Animals
May 29, 2019
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