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Fire blight, also written ... but apples, loquat, crabapples, quinces, hawthorn, cotoneaster, ... Fire blight on a pear tree caused by Erwinia amylovora.
The loquat (Eriobotrya japonica, Chinese: 枇杷; Pinyin: pípá) [2] is a large evergreen shrub or tree grown commercially for its orange fruit. It is also cultivated as an ornamental plant. The loquat is in the family Rosaceae and is native to the cooler hill regions of south-central China. [3] [4] In Japan, the loquat has been grown for over ...
Eriobotrya is a genus of flowering plants, mostly large evergreen shrubs and small trees, in the family Rosaceae, native to woodland in the Himalayas and East Asia. The loquat, E. japonica, is grown for its edible fruit. [2] Eriobotrya species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species including Hypercompe hambletoni.
According to WSU's Tree Fruit website, fire blight is a disease affecting crops of pears and apples. "Infections ... Apr. 17—MOSES LAKE — Frank Zhao, a professor of plant pathology at ...
According to Campanis, the story began on the West Coast at the turn of the 20th century when fruit trees were dying from a disease called fire blight. Frank Reiber, a plant scientist, searched ...
Mcmanus PS. 1994. Role of Wind-Driven Rain, Aerosols, and Contaminated Budwood in Incidence and Spatial Pattern of Fire Blight in an Apple Nursery. Plant Disease 78:1059. Puławska J, Sobiczewski P. 2011. Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Erwinia amylovora: the causal agent of fire blight. Trees 26:3–12.
-Between 2007-2011, U.S. fire departments responded to an average of 230 home fires that started with Christmas trees per year. These fires caused an average of 6 deaths, 22 injuries, and $18.3 ...
He introduced Erwinia amylovora (called by him Micrococcus amylovorus) as the causal agent of pear fire blight. [2] Born in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, he moved with his family at age 9 to a farm in Stephenson County, Illinois. [3] Burrill graduated Illinois State Normal University in 1865. [4]