If you are noticing droopy, dried-out flower clusters on your pears, Asian pears, quince, apples or crabapples, fire blight may be the cause. Fire blight is caused by a bacterium and is a common and ...

A bacteria called fire blight seems to be nailing Bradford pears and loquats this spring. Fire blight attacks plants in the Rosaceae family which include apples, plum, cherries, hawthorn, photinia, ...

Fire blight is a bacterial disease that affects certain species in the rose family (Rosaceae). It is especially destructive to apples (Malus spp.), pears (Pyrus spp.), and crabapples (Malusspp.). The ...

Apples, pears, crabapples and even some ornamentals are infected by fire blight, a destructive bacterial disease. Fire blight damage is noticeable when infected leaves suddenly turn brown, as if ...

Your beloved apple tree had blackening blossoms in spring and this fall you see black shoots. The ornamental pear tree on your street has browning shoots. The quince tree in your aunt’s backyard has a ...

CENTRAL POINT, Ore. — Srdjan Acimovic lopped off a tree branch loaded with Bartlett pears and told growers and researchers it was painful but necessary. “This hurts you, right? You’re throwing away ...

Editor's Note: Last week's column on fire blight brought in more questions about the disease taking out apple trees, including the following question. Read last week ...

Fire blight is so named because inflicted trees such as this flowering pear appear to be scorched. (Purdue Plant and Pest Diagnostic Lab photo) Download Photo WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Fire blight is ...

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 update on ...

If you are noticing droopy, dried-out flower clusters on your pears, Asian pears, quince, apples or crabapples, fire blight may be the cause. Fire blight is caused by a bacterium and is a common and ...

Growers in northern states are combating virulent outbreaks of a disease as seasons grow warmer, orchards have been reconfigured for higher yields and new varieties may be more vulnerable. By Jim ...