Tips from the Journals of the American Society for Microbiology
...ey, have discovered that while Pierce's disease of grapevines (PD) and almond leaf scorch (ALS) are caused by th... tested to see if almond strains could cause PD in grapevines and vice versa. The researchers determined that the organisms are not biologically interchangeable....Milk the right stuff for vines
... success of milk as a control of powdery mildew on grapevines supports earlier research on zucchini in Brazil. "Making sure that the quality is not diminished is very important for the commercial wineries - obviously they don't want to put anything on their grapes which will reduce the quality of their wines, a...Technology patented to create Pierces disease-resistant grapevines
...issued a patent for the use of a group of genes in grapevines expected to make the plants resistant to Pierces d...s of a variety of plants. The strain that lives in grapevines clogs the vessels, causing the plant to dry up and die. First detected in Southern California in ......oveys of CSIRO Plant Industry. If part of the grapevines root system is slowly dried, but the remaining roots kept well watered, the vine is fooled in thinking that most of its roots are drying out. It produces chemical signals that close the stomates and cause reduced shoot growth and leaf area, thus cons...