| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
All your vines are fatally condemned to disappear, monsieur -- La defense: sand, submersion, and sulfiding -- La reconstitution -- The underground battle: grafting on American rootstock -- Phylloxera makes the European grand tour -- The bug goes south: new venues, same story -- The old Americans, or how the fox conquered Europe -- Phylloxera breaks out (twice) in California |
| Summary |
Dying on the Vine chronicles 150 years of scientific warfare against the grapevine's worst enemy: phylloxera. In a book that is highly relevant for the wine industry today, George Gale describes the biological and economic disaster that unfolded when a tiny, root-sucking insect invaded the south of France in the 1860s, spread throughout Europe, and journeyed across oceans to Africa, South America, Australia, and California--laying waste to vineyards wherever it landed. He tells how scientists, viticulturalists, researchers, and others came together to save the world's vineyards and, with years |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 19th century
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Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 20th century
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Phylloxera.
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Agriculture -- General.
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GARDENING -- Fruit.
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Grapes -- Diseases and pests
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Phylloxera
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2010031697 |
| ISBN |
9780520948853 |
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0520948858 |
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1283277948 |
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9781283277945 |
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9786613277947 |
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6613277940 |
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