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.

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    Bextine, B
Published Date Title Publication Author List
Aug. 1, 2008 Impact of duration versus frequency of probing by homalodisca vitripennis (hemiptera : cicadellidae) on inoculation of xylella fastidiosa Journal of economic entomology Jackson, BC; Blua, MJ; Bextine, B;
Nov. 1, 2007 Xylella fastidiosa genotype differentiation by sybr (r) green-based qrt-pcr Fems microbiology letters Bextine, B; Child, B;
Oct. 1, 2008 Impact of duration versus frequency of probing by homalodisca vitripennis (hemiptera: cicadellidae) on inoculation of xylella fastidiosa. j econ entomol Jackson, BC; Blua, MJ; Bextine, B;
Feb. 17, 2010 Seasonal increase of xylella fastidiosa in hemiptera collected from central texas vineyards Journal of economic entomology Mitchell, FL; Brady, J; Bextine, B; Lauziere, I;
Feb. 17, 2010 Phylogenetic analysis of heat shock proteins in glassy-winged sharpshooter, homalodisca vitripennis Southwestern entomologist Schreiber, H; Hail, D; Hunter, W; Bextine, B;
Feb. 1, 2011 Culture independent survey of the microbiota of the glassy-winged sharpshooter (homalodisca vitripennis) using 454 pyrosequencing Environmental entomology Hail, D; Lauziere, I; Dowd, SE; Bextine, B;
Oct. 1, 2010 Detection and analysis of the bacterium, xylella fastidiosa, in glassy-winged sharpshooter, homalodisca vitripennis, populations in texas Journal of insect science Hail, D; Mitchell, F; Lauziere, I; Marshall, P; Brady, J; Bextine, B;
Sept. 1, 2010 Impacts of an orange oil solvent and stickem (r) on the detection of xylella fastidiosa dna in glassy-winged sharpshooters, homalodisca vitripennis (hemiptera: cicadellidae) Florida entomologist Marshall, P; Hail, D; Mitchell, F; Bextine, B;
Sept. 1, 2010 Unraveling the first xylella fastidiosa subsp fastidiosa genome from texas Southwestern entomologist Schreiber, HL; Koirala, M; Lara, A; Ojeda, M; Dowd, SE; Bextine, B; Morano, L;
Dec. 1, 2009 Phylogenetic analysis of heat shock proteins in glassy-winged sharpshooter, homalodisca vitripennis Southwestern entomologist Schreiber, H; Hail, D; Hunter, W; Bextine, B;
July 1, 2011 Age determination of the glassy-winged sharpshooter, homalodisca vitripennis, using wing pigmentation Journal of insect science Timmons, C; Hassell, A; Lauziere, I; Bextine, B;