Phylloxera used in a sentence

Phylloxera in a sentence as a noun

There are still pre-phylloxera vines in South Australia as well that are over 150 years old.

The really interesting thing to me is that phylloxera was combated by grafting old world vines onto new world roots.

Right now, I only spray grapes with some copper sulphate though I see it's been infected with grape phylloxera, for which there is no control or cure.

Not just phylloxera but the various fungi species that create powdery and downy mildew, among other illnesses for which Vitis vinifera has no natural resistance.

However, they have a natural resistance to phylloxera, which saved vitis vinifera from decimation and likely extinction through the grafting technique.

"He especially loved wines that predated the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century, when a grape-vine pest decimated Europe’s vineyards, forcing growers to replant with phylloxera-resistant rootstocks from North America.