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Dying on the Vine : How Phylloxera Transformed Wine /

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 sout...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gale, George, 1943-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2011.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.