FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. – The Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology in the Dale Bumpers College of Agricultural, Food and Life Sciences is hosting grapevine and Mediterranean crop researcher Pasquale Saldarelli in a virtual seminar on Tuesday.

Saldarelli is a senior researcher at the Institute of Sustainable Plant Protection of the National Research Council in Italy. He has described several new viruses and associated diseases using NGS technologies, and developed biotechnological methods and tools for virus detection.

The seminar takes place from 3:30-5:20 p.m. via Zoom link:

• https://bit.ly/3sv3Gft
• Meeting ID: 810 5065 7798
• Passcode: Spring2021

He has focuses efforts on the study of the Xylella fastidiosa outbreak in Apulia, contributing to the genome studies of Italian and Spanish isolates, to the analysis of response to the infection, to the description of the microbiome infected by Xylella and to the study of Xylella resistance, all in olive.

Saldarelli served on the Scientific Committee of the Italian Society of Plant Pathology and is a member of the International Council of Virus and Virus-like Diseases of the grapevine. He has participated in several EU projects.

The seminar is open to everyone.

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About the University of Arkansas: The University of Arkansas provides an internationally competitive education for undergraduate and graduate students in more than 200 academic programs. The university contributes new knowledge, economic development, basic and applied research, and creative activity while also providing service to academic and professional disciplines. The Carnegie Foundation classifies the University of Arkansas among fewer than 3% of colleges and universities in America that have the highest level of research activity. U.S. News & World Report ranks the U of A among its top American public research universities. Founded in 1871, the University of Arkansas comprises 10 colleges and schools and maintains a low student-to-faculty ratio that promotes personal attention and close mentoring.