{"id":4322,"date":"2021-08-10T16:31:49","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T16:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/?p=4322"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T13:41:17","slug":"prevenir-em-vez-de-remediar-a-expansao-da-xylella-em-portugal","status":"publish","type":"eventos","link":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/eventos\/prevenir-em-vez-de-remediar-a-expansao-da-xylella-em-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Prevention instead of cure? The spread of Xylella in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">CoLAB has been running for at least two years now <strong>InnovPlantProtect<\/strong> has a <strong>strategy <\/strong>to develop a<strong> biological solution against <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em><\/strong>. However, to date, it has not been possible to find public or private funds to materialize this project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, the need for its development seems inevitable, since this pathogenic bacterium, which produces a disease that kills olive trees, almond trees and vineyards, among dozens of other plants, is already present in three areas of Portugal (Porto, Queluz and the Algarve) and its vectors exist throughout the territory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When will the country realize that it has to invest now - in fact, it should have done so two years ago - so that this extremely aggressive disease doesn't spread to Portuguese olive and almond groves? Why isn't investment being made in prevention, instead of waiting for disaster to strike and then throwing up our hands?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br \/><em>Pedro Fevereiro, CEO of InnovPlantProtect, Visiting Professor, ITQB NOVA<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/easb4aajaue.exactdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Xylella_montagem2-2.jpg?strip=all&resize=529%2C350\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4333\" width=\"529\" height=\"350\"\/><figcaption>Photo of the main insect vector of <em>Xylella fastidiosa<\/em> and micrograph of the bacteria<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>H\u00e1 pelo menos dois anos que o CoLAB InnovPlantProtect tem pronta uma estrat\u00e9gia para desenvolver uma solu\u00e7\u00e3o biol\u00f3gica contra a Xylella fastidiosa. No entanto, at\u00e9 hoje, n\u00e3o foi poss\u00edvel encontrar fundos p\u00fablicos ou privados para materializar este projeto. Parece contudo inevit\u00e1vel a necessidade do seu desenvolvimento, uma vez que esta bact\u00e9ria patog\u00e9nica, que produz uma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4333,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4322","eventos","type-eventos","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4322","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/eventos"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4322\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15080,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/eventos\/4322\/revisions\/15080"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iplantprotect.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}