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 ...

Peak wildfire season may be over in California, but home-threatening fires remain a year-round threat in many areas, and this ...

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, ...

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Dear Neil: I have a 6-year-old pear tree that has fire blight. I have two other pear trees and three apples. How can I keep the one tree alive, and what can I do to prevent spread of the disease? The ...

Three years ago, I planted a little orchard of 20 dwarf cider apple trees. This spring I replanted — six of the little trees died last summer. Now I am wondering about my ability to grow apples at all ...

A highly contagious disease that can wipe out an apple orchard threatens Connecticut’s fruit crop. But there’s help on the way. Fire blight, a bacteria that gets into the apple tree as it is flowering ...

Do you see patches of dark, almost black foliage on your ornamental pear trees? Are the branch tips turning black and wilting into a “shepherd’s crook shape? Are the fruit turning black, shriveling ...

If you have grown pears before, you have surely noticed dead twigs, dead branches, and even entirely dead trees depending on the cultivar. During wet, disease-splashing years, fire blight is generally ...

It will be time to start pruning fruit trees later this month. As pruning begins, it's important to have good skills at identifying fire blight symptoms and have a multi-pronged approach for control, ...

Apples grow in a test plot at Washington State University’s Sunrise Research Orchard in Wenatchee, Wash. A WSU researcher has used a microorganism to create a compound that could fight destructive ...