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Science 6 January 1978:
Vol. 199. no. 4324, pp. 75 - 77
DOI: 10.1126/science.199.4324.75
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Pierce's Disease of Grapevines: Isolation of the Causal Bacterium

MICHAEL J. DAVIS 1, ALEX H. PURCELL 1, and SHERMAN V. THOMSON 1

1 Departments of Plant Pathology and Entomological Sciences, University of California, Berkeley 94720

A Gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium has been consistently isolated from grapevines with Pierce's disease. Grapevines inoculated with the bacterium developed Pierce's disease, and the bacterium was reisolated from the plants. The bacterium was serologically and ultrastructurally indistinguishable from the one in naturally infected plants, and also indistinguishable from a bacterium isolated from almonds with almond leaf scorch disease.

Submitted on July 25, 1975


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