Dr Blanca Landa
Appearances
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
It's a biosecurity facility, a quarantine level 2 facility. So the excuse is under positive pressure, is to avoid any escape from the laboratory inside or some entrance from outside, from the street.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
It's considered one of the most dangerous quarantine pathogens. This is due to the huge number of diseases that can cause, very important.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
Only in Andalusia we have over 1.6 million olive hectares, so you can imagine the concern of the olive industry.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
I was completely astonished. So it was like being in a field of like atomic war or whatever, because all the trees were completely died and drying. So all the Puglia, all the area is affected.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
It was a very, very sad situation. They said, some of the farmers, to me, that they take care of the trees even better than their own child, you know, because it was their way of living. Everywhere you go, you see symptoms of Xylella everywhere, yeah. And have they managed to stop it yet? No, no, not at all, no.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
Second approach is to inoculate the plants, for example, with beneficial communities of microorganisms that can protect the plant from not getting infected.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
We have some collaborators in the project that are searching for viruses that can infect the bacteria.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
No, I mean, otherwise I won't sleep any day. But sometimes I have been very concerned, especially when we detected the bacteria in Spain.
Global News Podcast
Trump and Netanyahu meet at the White House
I don't think that it's a matter of when. I will be optimistic. Now we are more prepared than before. We know exactly how to monitor our territory. I think farmers now are aware of what can be the problem.