Causing bacterium for the vine disease Mauke; see there.
Name (also Mauche or plant cancer) for a vine disease, which can also occur in many other plants. On fruit trees it is feared as "root canker". It mainly affects the perennial wood above ground (rarely the one-year-old wood). On the vine, it is caused by the bacterium Agrobacterium vitis and occurs especially after frosty winters with prolonged temperatures below 15 °Celsius, which have damaged the vines. In spring, it manifests itself as...
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