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Article: Eutypa: the new wave. (grapevine disease)
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- Wines & Vines
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Eutypa is something of a quiet disease. It's there, nobody talks about it, yet it promises to gradually insinuate itself as one of the next decade's most devastating grapevine diseases.
Part of the reason is that there seems to be either an incubation period of six to eight years, during which the fungal spores slowly build to a population capable of severe vine damage, or it simply takes a vine that period of time to grow large enough to have pruning wounds of sufficient size to allow Eutypa's invasion. Or both.
"Eutypa has always been one of the major diseases, but it has something of a low profile in the short term because it's primarily a disease of old ...