The economic damage accompanying the fire blight is expressed both in loss of crops and costs associated with uprooting infected trees restoration fruit plantations.  Pear characterized highest rates susceptibility to blight. Development genetically resistant cultivars one crucial aspects managing blight, which would allow foregoing current economically or ecologically unsound methods such...

Erwinia amylovora is the causative agent of fire blight, a destructive disease of rosaceous plants. The European population can be divided into several subtypes according to differences in restriction fragment length polymorphism of the XbaI genomic DNA digest analysed with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. This technique was also used to determine the genetic relatedness of six Croatian isolat...

Fire blight, caused by epiphytotic gram-negative bacteria Erwinia amylovora, is the most destructive bacterial disease of apple (Malus spp.). Genetic mechanisms fire blight resistance have mainly been studied using traditional biparental quantitative trait loci (QTL) mapping approaches. Here, we use large-scale historic shoot and blossom data collected over multiple years genotyping-by-sequenci...

Streptomycin is used in plant agriculture for bacterial disease control, particularly against fire blight in pome fruit orchards. Concerns that this may increase environmental antibiotic resistance have led to bans or restrictions on use. Experience with antibiotic use in animal feeds raises the possible influence of formulation-delivered resistance genes. We demonstrate that agricultural strep...

Abstract Fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora reached Kazakhstan in 2008. Here, the disease poses a threat not only to agricultural production of apples and pears, but also forests wild Malus sieversii , progenitor most domesticated apple varieties worldwide. In period 2019–2021, spread fire growth area was limited weather conditions. 2022, late spring early summer were characterized increas...