葡萄枝肿病1965年在日本九州的一部分巨峰葡萄产地发生,当时认为是生理性障碍,称谓“肿瘤病”。随着巨峰品种种植面积的扩大,该病在整个九州都有发生,而且被害非常严重,因而于1975年以后着手研究。根据农林水产省果树试验场病害第二研究室和德岛县果树试验场大和氏的研究,分离 Grape’s branch disease occurred in a part of Kyoho grape in 1965 in Kyushu, Japan, when it was considered as a physiological disorder, called “cancer disease.” With the expansion of the Komagome variety, the disease occurred throughout Kyushu and was severely victimized, so it started to study after 1975. According to the research and separation of the second laboratory of the fruit tree test site disease of the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries and Daiwa’s fruit tree test site in Tokushima Prefecture,