Researchers from Organic-PLUS partner the University of Catania have presented their work on the project at two recent conferences:
From 9th-11th July 2019, ‘Biocontrol 2019’ the 4th International Symposium on Biological Control of Bacterial Plant Diseases took place in Viterbo, Italy. The Italian Organic-PLUS team working on the PLANT workpackage presented early findings of their trials as a poster “Evaluation of antibacterial products for the control of Xanthomonas euvesicatoria pv. perforans in organic tomato farming”.

The Catania team presented again at the 5th International Conference on Microbial Diversity (MD2019) in Catania, Italy, from 25th-27th September 2019. In the poster, “Evaluation of the efficacy of biocontrol agents and cardoon plant extracts to contain green mold of citrus fruit”, promising results from the first 20 months of the Organic-PLUS project were presented.