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Working Group “Integrated Protection of Olive Crops”
Proceedings of the 10th Meeting at Baeza (Spain), 11-14 November, 2024
Edited by: Ana V. Lasa, Lucía Ruiz-Martos, Jesús Mercado-Blanco, Antonio J. Ortiz.
ISBN 978-92-9067-362-0 [XXI + 67 pp.].

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Participants of the 10th conference of the IOBC-WPRS WG “Integrated Protection in Olive Crops” at Baeza (Spain)

While most of the regional sections of IOBC define their areas based on globally accepted geographic and climatic criteria, there has always been a debate on the border between the East- and the West Palearctic Regional Sections. Both sections have their core parts in Europe, and the border between them has been artificial since the beginning, mostly reflecting the political landscape from times of the “cold war”.

The Executive Committee and the Council of IOBC-Global decided at their General Assembly at San José in Costa Rica on June 23, 2024, that it is high time to end this separation. By doing this, IOBC aims to support exchange and collaboration between as many biocontrol scientists and practitioners as possible across the entire Palearctic region.

According to the Statutes of IOBC-Global, members may request affiliation to any Regional Section. The historical border between EPRS and WPRS is therefore not binding. As a first step, IOBC-WPRS invites partners from eastern European countries, with whom it is already co-operating in research activities and meetings, to change their affiliation. On a mid-term perspective, this process may lead to a formal merger of the two regional sections into one.

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Commission “Young IOBC-WPRS”
PhD Symposium „Biological Control of Arthropod Pests and Plant Diseases”
Abstracts of the 1st Meeting at IRTA, Cabrils, Barcelona (Spain), 22-25 April, 2024

Download ePublication: IOBC-WPRS Bulletin Vol. 174, 2024

Participants of the 1st meeting of the Commission “Young IOBC-WPRS” at IRTA, Cabrils, Barcelona (Spain), 22-25 April, 2024

In this beautiful comic, the importance of the plant microbiota (in this case that of the olive tree), the biological control strategy, and the relevance of one of the most important diseases affecting olive cultivation (Verticillium wilt) are highlighted.

Click here to watch the high-resolution comic (pdf)

One of the most enjoyable ways to disseminate knowledge and scientific results is through comics. If this is accomplished without losing rigor, the contentment is complete.

Miriam Rivera Iglesias, an excellent scientific divulgator using this creative format (https://miriamriig.com; webpage in Spanish), generated this wonderful comic. Just after a couple of meetings and exchange of emails, she was able to capture in a few vignettes one of our ongoing research lines. For more information visit our website: https://grupos.eez.csic.es/mae

We trust the work and dedication of ‘Olivia’ excites you as much as we do. And feel free to spread this comic among your contacts!”

Read more about:

• The relevance of Verticillium wilt of olive and its control at:
  https://www.mdpi.com/2223-7747/9/6/735
• How the olive tree holobiont copes with a/biotic stresses:
  https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/plant-science/articles/10.3389/fpls.2023.1261754/full
• The impact of biocontrol agents on the olive microbiota:
  https://environmentalmicrobiome.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40793-023-00480-2“

Working Group “Integrated Protection of Stored Products (IPSP)”
Preceedings of the 14th Meeting at Novi Sad (Serbia), 16–20 September, 2024
Edited by: Jordi Riudavets, Sonja Gvozdenac, Željko Milovac.
ISBN 978-92-9067-360-6 [XIII + 187 pp.].

Download ePublication: IOBC-WPRS Bulletin Vol. 173, 2024

Participants of the 14th conference of the IOBC-WPRS WG “Integrated Protection of Stored Products” in Novi Sad (Serbia)

Working Group “Integrated Control in Oilseed Crops”
Preceedings of the 19th meeting at Dresden (Germany), 10-11 September, 2024.
Edited by: Samantha M. Cook, Elke Diederichsen, Malgorzata Jedryczka, Kevin King, Jutta Ludwig-Müller and Małgorzata Wiewióra.
ISBN 978-92-9067-359-0 [XI + 186 pp.].

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Participants of the 19th meeting of the IOBC-WPRS WG “Integrated Control in Oilseed Crops” in Dresden (Germany)

Working Group “Integrated Protection in Viticulture”
Proceedings of the Meeting at Logroño, La Rioja (Spain), 03-05 October, 2023.
Edited by: Christoph Hoffmann, Patrik Kehrli, René Fuchs, Tirtza Zahavi, Anna Markheiser, Jorge Sofia, Cesar Gemeno.
ISBN 978-92-9067-358-3 [VIII + 119 pp.].

Download ePublication: IOBC-WPRS Bulletin Vol. 171, 2024

Working Group “Landscape Management for Functional Biodiversity”
Preceedings of the 10th Meeting at Pisa (Italy), 20-22 March, 2024.
Edited by: Anna-Camilla Moonen, Graham Begg, Daniela Lupi, Augusto Loni, Niamh McHugh, Luuk Croijmans and Alice Caselli.
ISBN 978-92-9067-357-6 [IX + 126 pp.].

Download ePublication: IOBC-WPRS Bulletin Vol. 170, 2024

Participants of the 10th IOBC-WPRS WG meeting on “Landscape Management for Functional Biodiversity” 2024 in Pisa.