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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    Cooksey, Donald
Published Date Title Publication Author List
Dec. 5, 2001 Biological control of pierces disease with non-pathogenic strains of xylella fastidiosa 2001 pierce's disease research symposium Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2001 Control of pierces disease through degradation of xanthan gum 2001 pierce's disease research symposium Schiller, Neal; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2001 Epidemiology of pierces disease in southern california: identifying inoculum sources and transmission pathways 2001 pierce's disease research symposium Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2001 Impact of multiple-strain infections of xylella fastidiosa on acquisition and transmission by the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2001 pierce's disease research symposium Costa, Heather; Gispert, Carmen; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2001 Insect-symbiotic bacteria inhibitory to xylella fastidiosa in sharpshooters 2001 pierce's disease research symposium Lauzon, Carol; Lampe, David; Peloquin, John; Cooksey, Donald; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 15, 2002 Insect-symbiotic bacteria inhibitory to xylella fastidiosa in sharpshooters: pressure bomb extraction of xylem fluid to improve bacterial detection of xylella in plants 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Lauzon, Carol; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Bextine, Blake; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 15, 2002 Biological control of pierces disease with non-pathogenic strains of xylella fastidiosa 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Newman, Karyn; Almeida, Alexander; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 15, 2002 Control of pierces disease through degradation of xanthan gum 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Schiller, Neal; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 15, 2002 Epidemiology of pierces disease in southern california: identifying inoculum sources and transmission pathways 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 15, 2002 Paratransgenesis for control of pierce's disease: manipulation of endophytic bacteria for paratransgenic control of pierce's disease 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lauzon, Carol; Cooksey, Donald; Lampe, David; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 15, 2002 Insect-symbiotic bacteria inhibitory to xylella fastidiosa (paratransgenesis for control of pierces disease): identification of endophytic bacteria cycled by glassy-winged sharpshooters to host plants 2002 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Lauzon, Carol; Miller, Thomas;
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 Paratransgenesis to control pierce's disease: biology of endophytic bacteria in grape plants and bioassay of reagents to disrupt pierces disease 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Lauzon, Carol; Richards, Frank; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Bextine, Blake; Miller, Thomas;
Aug. 12, 2003 Dna microarray and mutational analysis to identify virulence genes in xylella fastidiosa 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Yang, Ching-Hong; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Biological control of pierces disease with non-pathogenic strains of xylella fastidiosa 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Control of pierces disease through degradation of xanthan gum 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Schiller, Neal; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Culture-independent analysis of endophytic microbial communities in grapevine in relation to pierces disease 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Borneman, James; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Epidemiology of pierces disease in southern california: identifying inoculum sources and transmission pathways 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Insect-symbiotic bacteria inhibitory to xylella fastidiosa in sharpshooters: toxic peptides against xylella 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lauzon, Carol; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Miller, Thomas;
Aug. 12, 2003 Effects of feeding substrate on retention and transmission of xylella fastidiosa strains by the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Impact of multiple-strain infections of xylella fastidiosa on acquisition and transmission by the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Costa, Heather; Gispert, Carmen; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 12, 2003 Development of glassy-winged sharpshooter mimetic insecticidal peptides, and an endophytic bacterial system for their delivery to mature grape 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Cooksey, Donald; Federici, Brian;
Aug. 12, 2003 Paratransgenesis to control pierces disease: isolation and analysis of anti-xylella single chain antibodies 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lauzon, Carol; Richards, Frank; Cooksey, Donald; Lampe, David; Miller, Thomas;
Aug. 12, 2003 Paratransgenesis to control pierces disease: the social life of alcaligenes xylosoxidans denitrificans 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Richards, Frank; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Lauzon, Carol; Miller, Thomas;
Aug. 12, 2003 Documentation and characterization of xylella fastidiosa strains in landscape hosts 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Downer, James; Henry, Mike; LeStrange, Michelle; Kabashima, John; Karlik, John; Shaw, David; Wong, Frank; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Paratransgenesis to control pierce's disease: biology of endophytic bacteria in grape plants and bioassay of reagents to disrupt pierces disease 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Lauzon, Carol; Richards, Frank; Lampe, David; Cooksey, Donald; Bextine, Blake; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 7, 2004 Dna microarray and mutational analysis to identify virulence genes in xylella fastidiosa 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Dumenyo, Korsi; Hernandez, Rufina; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Control of pierces disease through degradation of xanthan gum 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Dumenyo, Korsi; Schiller, Neal; Lee, Seung-Don; Bianco, Rosina; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Culture-independent analysis of endophytic microbial communities in grapevine in relation to pierces disease 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Borneman, James; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Paratransgenesis to control pierces disease: toxic peptides against xylella 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lauzon, Carol; Lampe, David; Kuzina, Ludmila; Cooksey, Donald; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 7, 2004 Effects of feeding substrate on retention and transmission of xylella fastidiosa strains by the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Symbiotic control of pierces disease: construction of transgenic strains of alcaligenes xylosoxidans denitrificans expressing surface anti-xylella factors as microbial pesticides for pierces disease control 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lindow, Steven; Lauzon, Carol; Richards, Frank; Cooksey, Donald; Lampe, David; Miller, Thomas;
Dec. 7, 2004 Symbiotic control of pierces disease: the biology of the sharpshooter symbiont, alcaligenes xylosoxidans subsp. denitrificans 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Bextine, Blake; Lindow, Steven; Lampe, David; Telukuntla, Lavanya; Ambannavar, Ranjana; Cooksey, Donald; Lauzon, Carol; Miller, Thomas;
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 Impact of host plant xylem fluid on xylella fastidiosa multiplication, aggregation, and attachment 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Dumenyo, Korsi; Bi, Jian; Martinez, Rufina; Toscano, Nick; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 7, 2004 Documentation and characterization of xylella fastidiosa strains in landscape hosts 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Downer, James; Henry, Mike; LeStrange, Michelle; Kabashima, John; Karlik, John; Shaw, David; Wong, Frank; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2005 Culture-independent analysis of endophytic microbial communities in grapevine in relation to pierces disease 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Borneman, James; Cooksey, Donald;
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 Effects of feeding substrate on retention and transmission of xylella fastidiosa strains by the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Perring, Thomas; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Dec. 5, 2005 Documentation and characterization of xylella fastidiosa strains in landscape hosts 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Wong, Frank; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Nov. 27, 2006 Characterization of regulatory pathways controlling virulence in xylella fastidiosa 2006 pierce's disease research symposium Dumenyo, Korsi; Shi, Xiangyang; Cooksey, Donald;
Nov. 27, 2006 Documentation and characterization of xylella fastidiosa strains in landscape hosts 2006 pierce's disease research symposium Hernandez, Rufina; Wong, Frank; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Aug. 1, 2006 Detection and differentiation of xylella fastidiosa strains acquired and retained by glassy-winged sharpshooters (hemiptera : cicadellidae) using a mixture of strain-specific primer sets Journal of economic entomology Hernandez, Rufina; Guzman, A.; Costa, Heather; Gispert, Carmen; Cooksey, Donald;
Nov. 1, 2004 Plant hosts of xylella fastidiosa in and near southern california vineyards Plant disease Hernandez, Rufina; Raetz, E.; Pinckard, T.; Dumenyo, C.; Costa, Heather; Gispert, Carmen; Cooksey, Donald;
Nov. 1, 2006 Differentiation of strains of xylella fastidiosa infecting grape, almonds, and oleander using a multiprimer pcr assay Plant disease Hernandez, Rufina; Dumenyo, C.; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
Sept. 1, 2006 Discovery and characterization of xylella fastidiosa strains in southern california causing mulberry leaf scorch Plant disease Hernandez, Rufina; Wong, Frank; Pinckard, T.; Costa, Heather; Cooksey, Donald;
May 1, 2006 In vitro activities of antibiotics and antimicrobial peptides against the plant pathogenic bacterium xylella fastidiosa Letters in applied microbiology Kuzina, Ludmila; Cooksey, Donald; Miller, Thomas;
Nov. 1, 2001 Xanthomonas leaf spot of catnip: a new disease caused by a pathovar of xanthomonas campestris Plant disease Koike, S.; Azad, H.; Cooksey, Donald;
Feb. 1, 2005 Regulation of resistance to copper in xanthomonas axonopodis pv. vesicatoria Applied and environmental microbiology Voloudakis, A.; Reignier, T.; Cooksey, Donald;
Jan. 1, 2003 Site-directed mutagenesis of specific genes in a pierces disease strain of xylella fastidiosa Abstracts of the general meeting of the american society for microbiology Hernandez, Rufina; Azad, H.; Dumenyo, C.; Cooksey, Donald;
Jan. 1, 2000 From rags to riches: insights from the first genomic sequence of a plant pathogenic bacterium Genome biol Yang, C.; Keen, N.; Dumenyo, C.; Cooksey, Donald;
June 1, 2002 Gene expression profile of pathogenicity factors in xylella fastidiosa Phytopathology Hernandez, Rufina; Dumenyo, C.; Cooksey, Donald;