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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...