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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.
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. PuĊawska J, Sobiczewski P. 2011. Phenotypic and genetic diversity of Erwinia amylovora: the causal agent of fire blight. Trees 26:3–12.
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 ...
Apr. 17—MOSES LAKE — Frank Zhao, a professor of plant pathology at Washington State University, spoke at the April 4 Fire Blight Webinar hosted by Michigan State University, providing an ...
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]
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)
Fungal diseases; Alternaria blotch Alternaria mali = A. alternata apple pathotype Alternaria rot Alternaria alternata: American brown rot Monilinia fructicola: Anthracnose canker and bull's-eye rot Pezicula malicorticus Cryptosporiopsis curvispora [anamorph] Apple scab: Venturia inaequalis Spilocaea pomi [anamorph] Apple ring rot and canker
Phomopsis blight of juniper is a foliar disease discovered in 1917 [1] caused by the fungal pathogen Phomopsis juniperovora. The fungus infects new growth of juniper trees or shrubs, i.e. the seedlings or young shoots of mature trees.