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he does a lot of his work trying to study
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the origins of this wine blight
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as well as the origins of the silkworm blight,
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that are these little--begin as little taches,
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they're little spots on the silkworm;
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and phylloxera is basically a disease that attacks the sap,
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that attacks the kind of roots of--in the vineyards.
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And ironically what resolves the problem is
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they started planting American roots, plants,
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that are resistant to the phylloxera.
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And somebody told me recently
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that California wine is now facing phylloxera.