1892 Dmitri Iwanowski infects plant with fluid filtered though a fine ceramic filter that removed all bacteria.
1898, Martinus Beijerinick confirmed Iwanowski's work with Tobacco Mosaic Virus and contagium vivum fluidum ('soluble living germ').
1907. False Blossom described affecting certain bogs in Wisconsin.
1907 C.L. Shear was the first scientist to describe the False Blossom condition which he did through a letter to the Wisconsin Cranberry Growers Association. This condition was referred to as phyllody, a situation where leaf growth occurs in flowers.
1910 Nature versus nurture
1910 Potential relationship between Cranberry False Blossom and viruses.
1913. Heredity versus Nurture in the development of Cranberry False Blossom.
1915 - Cranberry False Blossom first found in New Jersey
1916 C. L. Shear - False Blossom of the cultivated cranberry.
1917-18 Virus like Cranberry False Blossom
1920 Varietal Susceptibility to False Blossom in Cranberries
1926. Popular Mechanics, Viruses and Cranberry False Blossom.
1926 - All cranberry bogs in New Jersey infected with False Blossom.
1927. Viruses are suggested as a possible agent for False Blossom in Cranberries.
1929 Beckwith and Hutton - Cranberry False Blossom and the Blunt Nosed Grasshopper.
1931. Cranberry Industry In Critical State Through False Blossom Disease
1932 A Preliminary Report Cranberry False Blossom in Wisconsin
1933. A Factor In The Varietal Resistance Of Cranberries To the False Blossom Disease.
1933 Cranberry Problems in Wisconsin
1939. Cranberry False Blossom Campaign in final stage.
1943 Viruses in relationship to The growth of plants.
1953 Advances in Virus Research grasshopper preference for cranberry varieties.
1968. Grasshopper Vector, Virus Transmission and Cranberry False Blossom.
1970 Mycoplasmalike organisms in sieve Tube elements of plants infected with blueberry stunt And cranberry false blossom.
19. Breeding the American Cranberry
19. Cranberry Cultivars