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Donato Boscia, a plant biologist, has spent the past five years trying to learn about the Xylella fastidiosa bacterium. Scientists think it hitchhiked to Italy on an ornamental coffee plant. Here, Boscia holds the dried out leaves of a 1,year-old tree called "Il gigante," which is infected with Xylella. Olives are also central to the identity of the region. Over 60 million trees stand in stately rows across Puglia, which—until recently—produced about 40 percent of all the olive oil Italy exports.

But the arrival of Xylella upends the traditional order, threatening to wipe out groves worth billions of dollars. Rather than succumb to great loss, scientists and some growers have been throwing themselves into the fray to figure out what, exactly, is going on and whether they can mitigate the damage. Xylella causes plants to die of thirst from the inside out. If the bugs suck liquid out of an infected tree, they can carry the bacteria in their maw and inject them into the next plant they feed upon. Now, their presence incites fear. Sometimes, the trees die outright.

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Other times, they linger in a shadow-like state, too weak to grow fruit but ripe with bacterial loads. There is no known cure. Once the bacteria infiltrate a host, the plant stays infected until it dies. On the farms, the news was bleak.

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Giovanni Melcarne and his wife Daniela, olive producers from the Lecce Province, watched helplessly as their trees weakened. So he reached out to scientists at the nearby university who were desperately trying to understand the basic biology of the disease.

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Melcarne ultimately connected with Donato Boscia , a plant biologist at an Italian National Research Council CNR institute in the nearby town of Bari, whose own father-in-law had recently shown him the characteristic crisped leaves on their family trees. Boscia knew that Xylella could sit latent in a plant for months or a year before it started tightening its grip.

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Boscia was worried that it was already too late to get rid of the disease completely. But he also knew that they had to try. So he and his colleagues threw themselves into research: They mapped out the affected territory. They learned how the disease spread and what other plants could serve as hosts. They developed tools to test trees for the bacterium, so farmers could figure out if their trees were infected.

But in a bid to protect the olive market, a European Union commission specified that Italy should get rid of all the plants known to be infected or suspected of being so. More recently, officials instructed farmers to use pesticides to control the spittlebug population, angering farmers who prided themselves on growing organically. Under pressure from farmers and activists, Lecce police and prosecutors even started investigating scientists at the CNR , accusing them of introducing the disease to the region.

Were scientists at fault for the disease? The accusations were unfounded and later dropped, but the uproar highlighted the deep distrust lurking in the province. There is an emotional attachment to the trees. Olive tree farmers assemble in Veglie, near Lecce, for an informational event about Xylella on October 14, But like most of the other scientists working to understand and contain the bacterium, Bucci is sure that containment, however painful, is necessary.

While the debates raged, the bacteria spread. When Boscia and his team surveyed the scene in , they found the infection across about 30 square miles of the province.

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In the most recent survey, which wrapped up this summer, teams found infected trees across nearly square miles—about 40 percent of the region. The bacterium is now fully entrenched in the southernmost part of the province, and its eradication is unlikely, if not impossible.


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Hundreds of agronomists stalk the olive groves in this zone, checking hundreds of thousands of trees for signs of infection. Piles of wood cut from infected trees dry outside Renato Adamo's olive oil plant in Felline. Farmers often lay their tree trimmings out to dry before using them as firewood, but now they also have to burn the infected wood to keep the bacterium from spreading.

Meanwhile, state-sponsored monitoring efforts below the buffer zone have stopped, and many farmers deep in the heart of the infected zone, whose groves have withered and businesses cratered, feel left behind. Maria Saponari , a Xylella researcher at the CNR Institute for Sustainable Plant Protection in Bari, comes from a family of olive growers, and she knows very well how severely growers feel their losses.

She watched with dismay as the bacteria spread while also feeling a deep responsibility to help in whatever way she could. Young olives grow in a greenhouse at the CNR in Bari. Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Open Preview See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. Preview — Una brutta faccenda by Marco Vichi. Una brutta faccenda Il commissario Bordelli 2 by Marco Vichi. Firenze, Sono le nove di sera e il commissario Bordelli sta apprestandosi a uscire dal commissariato quando viene bloccato da Casimiro, una sua vecchia conoscenza.

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Shelves: crime-fiction , crime-fiction-italy , translated-crime-fiction. Considering the terrible nature of the crimes committed in this book, Death and the Olive Grove, the second installment of this series, actually reads on the lighter side of the genre. Vichi's Inspector Bordelli novels are set in Florence in the s. The main character is a former member of a somewhat irregular army unit known as the San Marco, and his work in World War II is constantly on his mind.

Throughout the novel Bordelli is overprone to thinking about the war, where he served with his Considering the terrible nature of the crimes committed in this book, Death and the Olive Grove, the second installment of this series, actually reads on the lighter side of the genre. Throughout the novel Bordelli is overprone to thinking about the war, where he served with his current police sidekick's father.

One of Bordelli's acquaintances, a dwarf named Casimiro, comes to the inspector with a strange story. He was out one night walking through an olive grove near a villa, and came across someone he thought must be dead. Bordelli accompanies him to the spot and there's no body anywhere. The only clue that anyone had been there at some point is an empty bottle of cognac, one that turns out to be a rare brand.

Before Bordelli can muse on the bottle, he and Casimiro are attacked by a Doberman, and would have been seriously injured had Bordelli not shot the dog and killed it. Inquiring at the villa about the dog, Bordelli gets no help, but he doesn't have long to consider this action before he is called to the scene of a little girl who had been sexually assaulted, killed, and bitten. While he's investigating this case, Casimiro goes missing and if that isn't bad enough, soon more little murdered girls are discovered, all suffering the same fate as the first. Death and the Olive Grove takes its time, and through it all, Bordelli relives a lot of his war experiences in his head.

The pace is very slow at times painstakingly so to the point where I just wanted to get through it , and there's probably much more focus on Bordelli's personal and past life than crime solving. While Bordelli does manage some clever police work, he is more or less pointed in the direction of his suspects by outside agencies rather than through his own deductions. This is a novel where the present links back to the past, but when it comes down to the why of it all in the main case of the little girls, I didn't get that "aha!

This book, like Death in August before it, was not at all as lively as I'd hoped.


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This book is probably better suited for readers who like their crime on the lighter side, and who don't mind getting into the personal life of the main protagonist more than the investigation aspects. It's perfect for people who want something more than a cozy and something less than an edgy, realistic, gritty crime read.

I'll be starting Death in Sardinia today; I'm hoping for a little more depth and less fluff. Bordelli is not only seen as a dedicated police officer, but as a man determined to right what he sees as perceived wrongs, equally at home in the presence of his colleagues and members of the criminal classes and always prepared to defend the honour of both.

In this multi-layered story, this becomes most evident in his investigation of the murder of Casimiro, a shady informant, but nevertheless a friend of Bordelli, which cleverly incorporates the activities of the White Dove, a post-war organisation investigating the whereabouts of Nazis who have escaped the punishments handed down by the Nuremburg trials.

Bordelli finds himself at odds with the White Dove, despite his sympathies, to gain justice for the murder of his friend. As in common in most crime books, Bordelli has little respect for his superiors and forges his own path throughout, aided and abetted by his relationship with the prickly pathologist, Dr Diotivede, and his police partner, Piras. In the course of his books, Vichi has established himself as a joy to me personally, as both a reader and a bookseller, as I love the supremely controlled grasp he has on both the narrative form and his adept characterisation, and how easy it is to recommend his books to those who love Italian crime fiction.