As part of the GeoNight project and the European night of researchers (Blue connect), project associates MSc Jakša Rošin and PhD Maja Jukić Špika and the project manager PhD Elda Vitanović hosted the students of the I Gymnasium Split accompanied by professor Tina Franić. During their stay at the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, they learned all about the LoVeFly project (KK.01.1.1.04.0002) and the obtained results.
The 25th international manifestation of olive and oil growers “Noćnjak 2023” was held in the organization of the Cooperative Association of Dalmatia in Tučepi from March 30 to April 2, 2023. As part of “Noćnjak 2023”, a scientific and professional meeting was held under the leadership of PhD Mirella Žanetić, assocaiate on the LoVeFly project. During the same event project associate, Filipa Burul, mag. ing. agr. (HRZZ-DOK-2021-02-1355) held a lecture of the authors Filipa Burul, mag. ing. agr., Ana Bego, mag. ing. agr., PhD Marijana Popović, MSc Jakša Rošin, PhD Maja Jukić Špika, PhD Katja Žanić and PhD Elda Vitanović, entitled “Results of the first year of research of the influence of selected olive volatiles on the attraction to the olive fly”, with which she presented the results of the research to interested olive growers and olive oil producers.
The scientific paper “A Lifetime of a Dispenser-Release Rates of Olive Fruit Fly-Associated Yeast Volatile Compounds and Their Influence on Olive Fruit Fly (Bactrocera oleae Rossi) Attraction” was published in the Open Access Journal Molecules (Volume 28, Issue 6). Authors are Maja Veršić Bratinčević, Ana Bego, Ivana Nižetić Kosović, Maja Jukić Špika, Filipa Burul, Marijana Popović, Tonka Ninčević Runjić, Elda Vitanović.
The “58th Croatian and 18th International Symposium of Agronomists” was held in Dubrovnik from February 11 to February 17, 2023. During the Symposium project associates Maja Jukić Špika and Mirella Žanetić and project manager Elda Vitanović promoted the project “New methods in olive pests controlling using plant volatiles – LoVeFly” (KK.01.1.1.04.0002 .).
The scientific paper “In the Beginning Was the Bud: Phytochemicals from Olive (Olea europaea L.) Vegetative Buds and Their Biological Properties” was published in the Open Access Journal Metabolites (Volume 13, Issue 2). Authors are Marijana Popović, Franko Burčul, Maja Veršić Bratinčević, Nikolina Režić Muzinić, Danijela Skroza, Roberta Frleta Matas, Marija Nazlić, Tonka Ninčević Runjić, Maja Jukić Špika, Ana Bego, Valerija Dunkić and Elda Vitanović.
In the professional journal “Maslina” (in English: “Olive”) (number 108, December 2022), in the section “Najnovije iz znanosti” (in English: “Latest from science”), a professional paper entitled „Privlači li muhu veličina ploda ili miris masline“ (in English: “Does the size or the smell of the olive fruit attract the fly”) was published. Authors are “New methods in olive pests controlling using plant volatiles – LoVeFly” (KK.01.1.1.04.0002) project associate MSc Filipa Burul (CSF-DOK-2021-02-1355) and project leader PhD Elda Vitanović. In the paper the project is presented, and the carried activities, goals and results are described.
The magazine “Maslina” is the most influential and popular newspaper in the field of olive growing and olive oil production in the region (Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Slovenia). It is intended for all olive growers and olive oil producers, for experts in the field of olive growing and for small and medium entrepreneurs and businessmen engaged in sectors of olive protection, of production and sale of machines and tools for olive growing and processing of fruit and oil processing and of sales of olive and olive oil products (food, cosmetics, wood industry, etc.).
Ph.D. Elda Vitanović, the project manager, held a workshop on Friday, December 16, 2022 at the Institute for Adriatic Crops and Karst Reclamation, during which she presented the results obtained from the work on the Lovefly project to interested stakeholders.
As part of the project “New methods in olive pests controlling using plant volatiles” (KK.01.1.1.04.0002), a workshop for olive growers and olive oil producers was held in the “Baletna škola” in Kaštel Kambelovac on December 14, 2022. Collaborators on the project M.Sc. Jakša Rošin, Ph.D. Maja Jukić Špika, Ph.D. Mirella Žanetić and the project manager Ph.D. Elda Vitanović presented the project goals, all implemented project activities and the obtained results to the interested olive growers.
The 65th plant protection conference organized by HDBZ was held in Opatija at the Ambasador hotel from December 6 to December 9, 2022.
As part of a program, Filipa Burul (CSF-DOK-2021-02-1355) held a presentation entitled “Izolacija i identifikacija hlapivih tvari masline koje bi mogle biti odgovorne za privlačenje maslinina moljca” (“Isolation and identification of olive volatile substances that could be responsible for attracting olive moths”) of authors Filipa Burul, Ana Bego, Marijana Popović, Maja Jukić Špika, Tonka Ninčević Runjić, Maja Veršić Bratinčević, Marija Bolčić, Jakša Rošin and Elda Vitanović.
More details about the seminar (in Croatian): https://hdbz.hr/65-seminar-program-2022/
