Description |
1 online resource (ix, 323 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-302). |
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. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 19th century.
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Grapes -- Diseases and pests. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Grapes -- Diseases and pests -- History -- 20th century.
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Chronological Term |
20th century |
Subject |
Phylloxera.
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Phylloxera. |
Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Added Title |
How phylloxera transformed wine |
Other Form: |
Print version: Gale, George, 1943- Dying on the vine. Berkeley : University of California Press, c2011 9780520265486 (DLC) 2010031697 (OCoLC)652743712 |
ISBN |
9780520948853 electronic book |
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0520948858 electronic book |
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9780520265486 |
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0520265483 |
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1283277948 |
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9781283277945 |
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