Highlights from emerging fire blight research shared at the International Symposium of Fire Blight on Rosaceous Plants, ...

GENEVA, N.Y. — Across the country, hundreds of kinds of apples were meticulously developed by orchardists over the last couple of centuries and then, as farms and groves were abandoned and commercial ...

A microscopic organism that thrives in the most inhospitable environments on the planet could become a weapon against fire blight, a disease that can devastate Pacific Northwest apple and pear ...

Fire blight, caused by the bacterial pathogen Erwinia amylovora, poses a serious threat to pome fruit cultivation and other rosaceous species worldwide. Recent advances in genetics and molecular ...

Fire blight is a rapidly spreading bacterial disease often characterized by rapidly dying shoots that turn black or brown and bend into a shepherds crook shape. Fire blight is a rapidly spreading ...

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