news and research about Pierce's Disease

What is Pierce's Disease?

Pierce’s Disease is a bacterial infection, which is spread by bugs that feed on grapevines, particularly the "glassy winged sharpshooter." Grapevines that become infected with PD can quickly become sick and die.

Author Detail

  • Name:
    Nunney, Leonard
Published Date Title Publication Author List
Dec. 15, 2002 Genome-wide identification of rapidly evolving genes in xylella fastidiosa: key elements in the systematic identification of host strains, and in the search for plant-host pathogenicity candidate genes 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Cooksey, Donald; Nunney, Leonard; Luck, Robert;
Aug. 12, 2003 Genome-wide identification of rapidly evolving genes in xylella fastidiosa: key elements in the systematic identification of host strains, and in the search for plant-host pathogenicity candidate genes 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Luck, Robert; Stouthamer, R; Nunney, Leonard;
Dec. 7, 2004 Multilocus sequence typing to identify reservoirs of xylella fastidiosa diversity in natural hosts in california 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Nunney, Leonard; Vickerman, Danel; Stouthamer, R; Cooksey, Donald; Luck, Robert;
Dec. 7, 2004 Genome-wide identification of rapidly evolving genes in xylella fastidiosa: key elements in the systematic identification of host strains, and in the search for plant-host pathogenicity candidate genes 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Luck, Robert; Stouthamer, R; Nunney, Leonard;
Dec. 5, 2005 Multi-locus sequence typing (mlst) to identify reservoirs of xylella fastidiosa diversity in natural hosts in california 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Nunney, Leonard; Vickerman, Danel; Luck, Robert; Stouthamer, R; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2005 A genome-wide approach to plant-host pathogenicity in xylella fastidiosa: multigenic methods for identifying strains, for studying the role of inter-strain recombination, and for identifying pathogenicity candidate genes 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Luck, Robert; Stouthamer, R; Nunney, Leonard;
Dec. 1, 2005 Multilocus sequence type system for the plant pathogen xylella fastidiosa and relative contributions of recombination and point mutation to clonal diversity Applied and environmental microbiology Nunney, Leonard; Scally, M.; Schuenzel, E.; Stouthamer, R;
July 1, 2005 A multigene phylogenetic study of clonal diversity and divergence in north american strains of the plant pathogen xylella fastidiosa Applied and environmental microbiology Nunney, Leonard; Scally, M.; Schuenzel, E.; Stouthamer, R;
June 1, 2009 Central american origin of the bacterial pathogen causing pierce's disease of grape Phytopathology Stouthamer, R; Nunney, Leonard; Hartung, J.; Montero-Astua, M; Yuan X; Bromley R;