Grape diseases | Pierre Galet

"This is a practical book on grape diseases aimed at vine-growers and students who are looking for a summary of each vine disease. It describes the symptoms, disease cycle, development, and predisposing conditions of each disease, as well as the methods of controlling it.

Tables are included at the end of the book to enable diseases to be identified from the various parts of the vine, such as leaves, shoots, trunks, inflorescences, grapes, and roots.

The 200 color photographs found separately from the text, and the 80 photographs and figures within the text, will facilitate disease identification in the vineyard. Treatment products are given according to chemical origin, but I have also included, in brackets, the names of leading commercial products.

My aim is not to advertise any particular product, but to enable readers to navigate the complicated advertising names that often change each year and are therefore difficult to follow. In fact, some substances have only a short lifespan because resistance to the fungicide develops.

This complicates the use of these products and means that treatments containing different chemical groups must be alternated, and those chemicals that have become completely ineffective should no longer be used. I would like to express my sincere thanks to Mr. Arnould, Director of "Revue des Œnologues" and "OENO PLURIMEDIA" for publishing this book in English. I would also like to thank Jaqueline Smith who has taken on the task of translating it."

Pierre GALET

CONTENTS

Preface

Chapter I - Diseases caused by fungi, bacteria, and viruses

• A. Diseases caused by fungi
  • Powdery mildew
  • Downy mildew
  • Black rot
  • Anthracnose
  • Excoriose (Dead arm disease)
  • Brenner
  • Grey rot
  • Other rots
  • Acid rot
  • Alternaria rot
  • White rot
  • Esca
  • Eutypa dieback
  • Root rot
• B. Diseases caused by bacteria and bacteria-like organisms
  • Bacterial blight
  • Pierce's disease
• C. Grapevine yellows diseases
  • Flavescence dorée
  • Flavescence dorée leafhopper
  • Grapevine black wood disease
• D. Diseases caused by viruses
  • Virus diseases

Chapter II - Diseases caused by animals

• Nematodes
• Root-Knot nematodes
• Dagger and needle nematodes
• Snails
• Mites
• Grape erineum mite
• Grape rust mite
• Spider mite
• Bush crickets
• Thrips
• Leafhoppers
• Phylloxera
• Scale insects
• Coleoptera beetles
• Grape moths
• Pyrale moth
• Cochylis
• Eudemis
• Eulia
• Noctuids
• Arctid moth caterpillars
• Grape sphinx moths
• Gall midges

Chapter III - Accidents of climate

• Frost injury
• Winter frost
• Excrescence
• Sunburn
• Hail
• Lightning
• Wind

Chapter IV - Physiological diseases

• Reddening
• Vine apoplexy
• Tylosis
• Grape bunch wilt
• Coulure
• Drought
• Root asphyxia
• Deficiency and Toxicity
  • Nitrogen deficiency
  • Phosphorous deficiency
  • Potassium deficiency
  • Magnesium deficiency
  • Manganese deficiency
  • Manganese toxicity
  • Zinc deficiency
  • Molybdenum deficiency
  • Boron deficiency
  • Boron toxicity
  • Acid soil toxicity
• Alkali injury
• Chlorosis
• Pollution
  • Air pollution
  • Water pollution
  • Soil pollution

Disease and parasite identification tables

Systematic classification of vine diseases and parasites

Bibliography

List of figures

List of colour plates

Alphabetical index