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phylloxera
phylloxera Small, yellowish insect of the order Homoptera. It is a pest on grape plants in Europe and
w USA. It attaches itself to the leaves and roots and sucks the plant's fluids, resulting in the eventual rotting of the plant. It destroyed all of France's native root stock of vitis vinifera. Family Phylloxeridae; species: Phylloxera vitifoliae.
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The phylloxera picture in Sonoma and Napa counties. (Sonoma County and Napa County, California; growers combat Type B phylloxera infestation of grapes)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 8/1/1994; ; 700+ words
; ...aggressively mounting an attack on Type B phylloxera in their vineyards and their battle...Napa and Sonoma counties due to Type B phylloxera. Another 9,875 acres are believed...number of acres already infested with phylloxera. In 1993, the Phylloxera Acreage Survey...
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Anything new under the sun? Not phylloxera biotypes. (research on viticulture pests)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 6/1/1991; ; 700+ words
; ...Pest Makes Its Presence Felt Grape phylloxera Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch...very substantive contributions to phylloxera research during the past 50 years, overall, research on phylloxera ranked low in the scheme of priorities...
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Removal of phylloxera in Napa & Sonoma counties.(California)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 4/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...rootstock was found to be infested with phylloxera - a root feeding insect pest. University...that was known to be susceptible to phylloxera. Within the next three years several...Thus, a rootstock that had resisted phylloxera infestations for over 50 years in North...
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A Possible Preventive for Phylloxera.
Magazine article from: Agricultural Research; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...aphidlike insect known as the grape phylloxera louse punctures grapevine roots to suck...can enter. The combined effects of phylloxera's feeding and the diseases caused...scientists as Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, phylloxera is one of the world's most destructive...
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Oregon's phylloxera threat. (grape disease)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 4/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; Grape phylloxera, Daktulosphaira vitifoliae, an aphid...dramatically change with the recognition of a phylloxera infestation in a vineyard. Annual sampling...taken in subsequent years to be sure no phylloxera are present. Arrangements should also...
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EVALUATING RESISTANCE OF SOME ROOTSTOCKS TO GRAPE PHYLLOXERA WITH IN VITRO AND EXCISED ROOT TESTING SYSTEMS
Magazine article from: In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology; 3/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...life table of a local strain of grape phylloxera was determined to evaluate the resistance...rootstocks. Key words: fecundity; grape phylloxera; mortality; oviposition; population...production is about 540000 tonnes. Grape phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae Fitch...
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Phylloxera find is no cause for panic - growers
Newspaper article from: The Nelson Mail; 8/5/2003; ; 700+ words
; The shock announcement that phylloxera has been found in a Nelson vineyard...Association chairman Philip Woollaston . Phylloxera feeds on grape roots and leaves...the recent discovery, Nelson was phylloxera-free. Waimea Estates managing...
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The back page. (post-phylloxera viticulture)
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 3/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...the vineyards are going to be after phylloxera. I have been guilty of writing a few...can afford to create the new post-phylloxera Eden. And for those who don't have...lenders. If you have a vineyard hit by phylloxera (and 80% of the growers in California...
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Could phylloxera cost $70,000 per acre?
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 2/1/1991; 673 words
; ...of replanting an acre of vineyard hit by phylloxera is between $12,000 and $15,000, according...there is constant replanting going on, phylloxera or not. But in the case of the phylloxera-stricken vineyards, the rate of replanting...
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Oregon phylloxera.
Magazine article from: Wines & Vines; 10/1/1990; 466 words
; Oregon phylloxera * Two commercial vineyards in the Willamette...Valley of Oregon have been hit with phylloxera, according to the Oregon Department...Oregon vineyards in a further search for phylloxera. The survey should be finished by...
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phylloxera
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
phylloxera , small, sap-eating, greenish insect of the genus Phylloxera, closely related to the aphid . Phylloxeras feed...stages. Most notorious of the group is the grape phylloxera, Phylloxera vitifoliae, native to E North America...
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vineyard
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...states. Vineyard Pests and Diseases Phylloxera , a North American insect that kills...world's wine industry by grafting phylloxera-susceptible European vines onto resistant...rootstocks of E American origin. In 1979 phylloxera B overcame the resistance of the dominant...
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Cantine Giorgio Lungarotti S.R.L.
Book article from: International Directory of Company Histories
...oil producer. In the late 19th century, an outbreak of the phylloxera virus decimated Europe's vineyards, including those in...began planting vineyards based on varieties used before the phylloxera outbreak in the 19th century. The success of these early...
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Graft
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...rescue of the European wine grape ( Vitis vin-ifera ) industry from the ravages of Phylloxera disease depended on grafting European cultivars onto Phylloxera-resistant rootstocks of native American species: the northern fox grape ( Vitis labrusca...
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Wine in the Modern World
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Food and Culture
...the century were not happy ones for wine producers. By 1900 phylloxera had completed its devastation of the European viticultural...at the same time. Spurred originally by the need to combat phylloxera, then by the requirements of rapid new plantings in the Americas...
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