Researchers are improving the forecasting tool that layers in RH, bloom age, and cultivar-specific susceptibility for better fire blight risk assessment.

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 highly destructive disease of apple and pear that can occur in both commercial and home plantings. Many landscape trees and shrubs in the rose family are ...

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 remains one of the most destructive bacterial diseases threatening global apple production, with limited long-term control options. A new study identifies a family of inducible lectin ...

Grumpy helps a reader deal with their diseased pear tree. Plus, the plant of the week. "Do you know what causes some of my pear trees, leaves and branches to turn brown and die? It still produces ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Fire blight is a devastating disease. (Image courtesy of the American Phytopathological Society) After a $222 million blow to ...