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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    Hunter, Wayne
Published Date Title Publication Author List
Aug. 12, 2003 Identifying genetic targets for glassy-winged sharpshooter control: available genetic datasets for the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Hunter, Wayne; Dang, P.;
Aug. 12, 2003 Understanding glassy-winged sharpshooter feeding: gene expression in glassy-winged sharpshooter salivary glands and midguts 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Morgan, David; Backus, Elaine; Hunter, Wayne; Habibi, Javad; Dang, P.;
Aug. 12, 2003 Expanding the genetic targets for sharpshooter control: genetic datasets for sharpshooters that transmit pierces disease 2003 pierce's disease research symposium Mizell, Russell; Hunter, Wayne; Dang, P.; Tipping, Christopher;
Dec. 7, 2004 Development of an artificial diet for the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Backus, Elaine; Hunter, Wayne; Jones, Walker; Goodman, Cynthia; Coudron, Thomas;
Dec. 7, 2004 Glassy-winged sharpshooter iridovirus pathogen 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Hunter, Wayne; Albrecht, Ute; Achor, Diann;
Dec. 7, 2004 Towards identifying pierces disease resistant genes from a native american grape species (vitis shuttleworthii) a genomics approach 2004 pierce's disease research symposium Hunag, Xia; Dang, P.; Hunter, Wayne; Lu, Jiang;
Dec. 5, 2005 Development of an artificial diet for the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Patt, Joseph; Backus, Elaine; Hunter, Wayne; Coudron, Thomas; Brandt, Sandra; Wright, Maureen;
Dec. 5, 2005 Effects of juvenile hormone analogs on survival and reproduction status of the glassy-winged sharpshooter 2005 pierce's disease research symposium Northfield, Tobin; Hunter, Wayne; Tipping, Christopher; Andersen, Peter; III, Russell;
April 1, 2005 A novel method to induce oviposition of the glassy-winged sharpshooter (hemiptera : auchenorrhyncha : cicadellidae) Journal of entomological science Andersen, Peter; Brodbeck, Brent; Mizell, Russell; Hunter, Wayne; Lopez-Gutierrez, E.; Tipping, Christopher;
June 1, 2006 Profiling transcriptional changes in citrus sinensis (l.) osbeck challenged by herbivory from the xylem-feeding leafhopper homalodisca coagulata (say) by cdna macroarray analysis Plant science Hunter, Wayne; Mozoruk, J.; Cave, R.; Bausher, M.; Hunnicutt, L.;
Feb. 4, 2004 Putative protease inhibitor gene discovery and transcript profiling during fruit development and leaf damage in grapefruit (citrus paradisi macf.) Gene Hunter, Wayne; Dang, P.; Mayer, R.; Shatters, R.; Bausher, M.; Chaparro, J.; Niedz, R.; McCollum, T.; Sinisterra, X.;
June 1, 2003 Toxicity and repellency of tephrosia candida to larval and adult diaprepes root weevil (coleoptera: curculionidae) J econ entomol Hunter, Wayne; Lapointe, S.; McKenzie, C.;
Aug. 1, 2004 Sucrose octanoate toxicity to brown citrus aphid (homoptera: aphididae) and the parasitoid lysiphlebus testaceipes (hymenoptera: aphidiidae) J econ entomol Hunter, Wayne; McKenzie, C.; Weathersbee, A.; Puterka, Gary;
March 28, 2006 Genome sequence and molecular characterization of homalodisca coagulata virus-1, a novel virus discovered in the glassy-winged sharpshooter (hemiptera: cicadellidae) Virology Hunter, Wayne; Mozoruk, J.; Cave, R.; Powell, C.; Hunnicutt, L.;
Jan. 1, 2003 An expressed sequence tag (est) set from citrus sinensis l. osbeck whole seedlings and the implications of further perennial source investigations Plant science Hunter, Wayne; Dang, P.; Shatters, R.; Bausher, M.; Chaparro, J.; Niedz, R.;
Jan. 1, 2006 Comparative sequence and functional analysis of stilbene synthase genes among vitis species Acta horticulturae Hunter, Wayne; Lu, Jiang; Huang, Wensheng;
Jan. 1, 2006 Complete genome sequence and molecular characterization of homalodisca coagulata virus-1, a novel virus discovered in the glassy-winged sharpshooter (hemiptera: cicadellidae) Virology Hunter, Wayne; Mozoruk, J.; Cave, R.; Powell, C.; Hunnicutt, L.;
Jan. 1, 2006 Nucleotide sequence of 3′ -end of homalodisca coagulata virus-1. a new leafhopper-infecting virus from the glassy-winged sharpshooter Journal of insect science Hunter, Wayne; Chaparro, J.;
March 1, 2007 Phytoreovirus-like sequences from glassy-winged sharpshooter salivary glands Florida entomologist Hunter, Wayne; Sinisterra, X.;
Jan. 1, 2007 Moving towards disease resistance in grapes Wine east january Hunter, Wayne; Lu, J.;
Jan. 1, 2006 Comparative genomics analysis between v. shuttleworthii and v. vinifera grapes Acta horticulturae Hunter, Wayne; Bradeley, F; Ren, Zhongbo; Lu, J.; Huang, Wensheng;
Jan. 1, 2004 A picorna-like virus from the red imported fire ant, solenopsis invicta: initial discovery, genome sequence, and characterization Virology Hunter, Wayne; Oi, D.H; Williams, D.F.; Dang, P.; Strong, Donald; Shapiro-Ilan, D.; Valles, S.; Pereira, Roberto;