It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...
Around 150 years ago, France’s reputation as one of the world’s greatest producers of wine was under critical threat from a terrible blight. When scientists were finally able to determine the cause, ...
A French botanist made an adventurous journey across the United States in the 1880s in search of an American grapevine suitable for the vineyard soil back home. France was in the midst of the ...
Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol. 56, No. 422 (December 2005), pp. 3029-3031 (3 pages) The purpose of life is its continuation: survival is the reason things live. Here we explore this 'basic' of ...
Newly laid phylloxera eggs and phylloxera nymphs at different ages were exposed to different doses of gamma irradiation. The percentage of phylloxera eggs hatched decreased as eggs were subjected to ...
Phylloxera is the aphid-like insect that nearly destroyed the European wine industry in the late 1800s. It is a threat most of the world’s top wine-growing regions have faced. Now the alarm has been ...
A university researcher is training sniffer dogs to detect pest and disease in vineyards. Dogs have traditionally been trained to sniff out drugs, explosives and even missing people, but their new ...
“Phylloxera is having a significant impact in the Yarra Valley,” laments Sandra de Pury of Yeringberg Winery, “Despite the best efforts of wineries and organizations to contain it, the louse is now ...
The vineyard pest Grape Phylloxera (Daktulosphaira vitifoliae) on a vine root. (Kevin Powell/Sugar Research Australia Limited) Walla Walla, Washington, has a louse in its house. Now the Washington ...
It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...
It’s too bad that wine did not have the mainstream popularity in the 1980s that it has today, because some metal band could have cleaned up with a name like Phylloxera. Can you imagine that word, ...
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