18702 CV Riley

France’s vineyards were plagued by a pest known as the phylloxera louse. Within months, nearly all the country’s grape vines were destroyed. C.V. Riley, Missouri’s first state entomologist, was among the first to discover that Native American grapes were resistant to the pest. Missouri winemakers shipped millions of phylloxera-resistant rootstocks across the Atlantic, ultimately saving the French wine industry.

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