Pierce's disease

Meaning

Noun

A disease of grapes caused by Xylella fastidiosa bacteria.

Origin

Discovered in 1892 by Newton B. Pierce (1856–1916; California's first professional plant pathologist) on grapes in California near Anaheim, where it was known as Anaheim disease.

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