Silvoarable systems combine tree rows and annual crops within the same area, improving ecosystem resilience and sustainable management of agricultural landscapes. Although many experimental forest plantations aim to assess the productive and quality performance of integrating alley cropping within arable fields, some operational aspects of tree harvesting remain poorly documented, limiting the availability of benchmarking data...

Spartium junceum L. is a typical species of Mediterranean shrubland areas, also grown in gardens and parks as an ornamental. In recent years in Europe, S. junceum has been recurrently found to be infected by different subspecies and genotypes of the quarantine regulated bacterium Xylella fastidiosa (Xf). This work presents for the first time the anatomy of S. junceum plants that we found, by means of genetic and immunochemistr...