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How dogs could save wine production threatened by disease

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79% Informative

English Springer Spaniels called Zinny and Sauvi B have been recruited to hunt down vineyard-destroying bugs.

The dogs’ acute sense of smell is being used to detect mealybugs, which infect grapevines with a killer virus called leafroll 3 .

Study in Lodi wine-growing region found the pups sniffed out leafroll infections 93.4 per cent of the time and had a 97.3 per cent detection rate.

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79

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79

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20

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semi-formal

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English

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48

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