This year, the Plant Protection Day that drives IRTA's Sustainable Plant Protection Program will be held in Lleida at the new facilities that have just been completed thanks to the "PECT, Agrobiofood" project and other funding from IRTA, dedicated exclusively in Plant Health to help promote research and advice in the sector.
Three papers will be presented on the challenges posed by some of the invasive and emerging pests and diseases that are of most concern to the fruit sector and the advances for their prevention, and a paper to present the new Plant Health Hub of Catalonia. To complete the day, there will be a guided tour of the new plant pathology and applied entomology laboratories, including the NBS3 biocontainment module, the first laboratory of this type in Catalonia to work with organisms considered to be quarantined in the EU, such as Xylella fastidiosa among others, in conditions of maximum biosecurity. The PECT Agrobiofood project is financed by the OP FEDER de Catalunya 2014-2020.
