Silv-olive. Wild rootstocks for olive cultivation

The proposal of this Operational Group seeks to solve the new problems that have arisen in the olive industry due to high-density plantations, such as: requirements for low-vigor varieties, genetic impoverishment of the crop, proliferation of wilt caused by Verticillium, requirement for new varieties that are better adapted to environmental disturbances and more resistant to Xylella fastidiosa.

Its activities include: testing the efficacy of micropropagated wild genotypes as low-value rootstocks resistant to verticillium wilt and environmental disturbances and testing the susceptibility of genotypes to Xylella fastidiosa.