Videos

Ballots were mailed out by CDFA on March 29, 2010

Click below to see and hear video about the PD/GWSS Board, research and what winegrape growers have to say about the threat and the assessment.

	Dr. Abhaya M. Dandakar, from UC Davis, discusses his research into developing Pierce’s disease resistant grape root stock that produce their own proteins to inhibit the spread of Pierce’s disease within a vine once infected. His method is currently undergoing field trials.
	Dr. Andy Walker, at UC Davis, talks about traditional plant breeding of Pierce’s disease resistant winegrape vines.
	Dr. Steven Lindow, UC Berkeley, talks about his ongoing field trials to create winegrape vines that are resistant to Pierce's Disease, which is deadly to grape vines and is spread by both the glassy-winged and blue-green sharpshooters.
	Dana Merrill, a winegrape grower from Paso Robles, talks about creating the PD/GWSS Board and how it has helped to save Californian’s winegrape industry.
	Ben Drake, a winegrape grower from Temecula, talks about how the area was devastated by the combination of Pierce’s disease and the Glassy-winged Sharpshooter in 1999 to 2000.
	Dana Merrill, a winegrape grower from Paso Robles, talks about how the PD/GWSS Board gives winegrape growers a voice into how their assessment moneys is spent on research.
	Marc Cuneo, a winegrape grower from Sonoma, warns that his biggest fear in the battle against PD/GWSS is complacency among his fellow winegrape growers.