Dying on the vine [[electronic resource] ] : how phylloxera transformed wine / / George Gale

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910790049803321
• Autore: Gale George <1943->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011
• ISBN: 1-283-27794-8; 9786613277947; 0-520-94885-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (335 p.)
• Disciplina: 634.8/2752
• Soggetti: Grapes - Diseases and pests - History - 19th century; Grapes - Diseases and pests - History - 20th century; Phylloxera
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 1860's, 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 of observation and research, developed a strategy of resistance. Among other topics, the book discusses phylloxera as an important case study of how one invasive species can colonize new habitats and examines California's past and present problems with it.