California's Coachella Valley Sees First Signs of Grapevine Plague.

From: The Press-Enterprise (Riverside, California) (viaKnight-Ridder/Tribune Business News) | Date: August 14, 2002 | Copyright information

Byline: Don McAuliffe

Aug. 14--Pierce's disease, the vine-choking plague that has caused $20 million in damage in the Temecula area and wiped out the grape industry in Orange County a century ago, has been detected in the vineyard-rich Coachella Valley.

Thirteen vines infected with the bacterium that causes the always-fatal disease were discovered this summer by University of California scientists in a vineyard in Mecca.

"They found a very limited amount of it down there," said Jay Van Rein, spokesman for the California Department of Food and Agriculture in ...

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