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Fire blight, also written fireblight, is a contagious disease affecting apples, pears, and some other members of the family Rosaceae. It is a serious concern to apple and pear producers. It is a serious concern to apple and pear producers.
Fire blight of pome fruits, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora (Burrill) Winslow et al., is the most severe disease of pear and also is found in apple and raspberry, among others. Bacterial leaf blight of rice , caused by the bacterium Xanthomonas oryzae (Uyeda & Ishiyama) Dowson.
Eve Billing (1923–2019) was a UK plant pathologist specialising in diseases of fruit trees especially fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora bacteria. She introduced a modelling system to predict the likelihood of outbreaks of fire blight and also methods for pathogen identification and treatment.
Blister disease Coniothecium chomatosporum: Blue mold rot Penicillium spp. Penicillium expansum. Botrytis spur and blossom blight Botrytis cinerea Botryotinia fuckeliana [teleomorph] Brown rot Monilinia fructicola Monilinia laxa. Cladosporium fruit rot Cladosporium herbarum Mycosphaerella tassiana [teleomorph] Clitocybe root rot (mushroom root rot)
Thomas Jonathan Burrill (April 25, 1839 – April 14, 1916) was an American botanist, plant pathologist, and college administrator who first discovered bacterial causes for plant disease. [1] He introduced Erwinia amylovora (called by him Micrococcus amylovorus) as the causal agent of pear fire blight. [2]
Fire blight: Erwinia amylovora: Hairy root Agrobacterium rhizogenes: Mycoplasmatota; Apple chat fruit: Phytoplasma suspected ... Viral diseases; Apple chlorotic leafspot
A well-known member of this genus is the species E. amylovora, which causes fire blight on apples, pears, and other Rosaceae crops; E. tracheiphila, though, causes bacterial wilt of cucurbits. Other familiar species, such as E. carotovora (another major cause of plant diseases), are more distantly related to the fire blight bacterium, and have ...
While fire blight has always been a concern in eastern apple production, severe outbreaks in the west in recent years have caused growers there to adopt more consistent and vigorous monitoring and management programs as well. [23] The disease can affect every part of the tree, from the fruit to the trunk. [14]