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Development of a bacteriophage-based biopesticide for fire blight
Fire blight is an economically important disease of apples and pears that is caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora. Control of the disease depends on limiting primaly blosson1 infection in the spring, and rapidly removing infected tissue. The possibility of using phages to control E.amylovora …
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Welfare effects of new fire blight control methods on the U.S. apple industry
… progress has been made to fight against apple fire blight, which cost the Michigan apple industry nearly $42 million in the 2000 fire blight outbreak. Researchers are currently working to control fire blight through development of a microencapsulated chemical and bio-control agents as well as …
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Motility and Chemotaxis of Erwinia Herbicola and Its Effect on Erwinia Amylovora (Biological Control, Phytobacteriology, Fire Blight)
Optimum conditions required for motility and chemotaxis in Erwinia herbicola (112Y) were determined by the capillary assay. Actively motile cells were selected from the periphery of swarming colonies grown on soft agar (0.25%) modified Emerson's medium plates minus the ingredient nutrient broth. …
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Status of streptomycin-resistant Erwinia amylovora in Illinois apple orchards and evaluation of alternative compounds to manage fire blight disease
… 17,963 metric tons of apples annually. Fire blight disease, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a serious threat to apple production in Illinois and other Midwestern states. Streptomycin has been the most effective chemical for control of fire blight of pome fruits in Illinois, …
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Developing Novel Management Options for Pear Fire Blight and Apple Bitter Rot with Characterization of Apple European Canker in Virginia
… Firstly, in pursuit of mitigating shoot blight severity caused by Erwinia amylovora and preventing fire blight cankers on pear trees, a two-year evaluation was conducted. The study assessed the efficacy of preventive treatments, including foliar spray and trunk injection applications of …
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Identification and characterization of type III secretion inhibitors in Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight of apple and pear
Fire blight is a destructive bacterial disease of apples and pears as well as other rosaceous plants and causes millions of dollar losses around the world each year. Erwinia amylovora is the causative agent of fire blight. The type III secretion system (T3SS) and exopolysaccharide (EPS) amylovoran …
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The Effect of Sub-Freezing Temperatures on The Viability and Pathogenicity of The Fire Blight Pathogen, Erwinia Amylovora (Burrill) Winslow Et Al
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The Relationship of Protein, Amino Acid, Nitrogen and Peroxidase to The Fire Blight Disease of Jonathan Apple Trees as Affected by Gradients of Copper
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Relationship of the apple aphis and other insects to the dissemination of fire blight in apple orchards, with a view to methods of blight control
… as indicated by the above data, proves that fire blight is due to a specific organism, a bacterium known in science as Bacillus amylovorus, which manifests itself in the following ways: 1. Blossom blight, due to the bacterial infecting the nectary of the flower and multiplying therein, later …
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Trade and Welfare Effects of Japan's Revised Import Protocol for American Apples
… that mature, symptomless apples cannot transmit fire blight. This study addresses U.S.-Japanese trade issues in two parts. By providing the first estimate of a Japanese fruit demand system in the English language, I fill a significant gap in the literature, and offer parameter estimates that may …
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Novel antagonistic bacteria as prospective agents for the biocontrol of some plant bacterial diseases
… in its orginal host apple plant. Reduction of fire blight disease severity by antagonistic bacteria was demonstrated by Vanneste,(1996, 2000). Bacillus subtilis is well known as biocontrol agent in soil conditions (Bochow, 1992). Pantoea agglomerans is an epiphytic as well as a soil inhabitants …
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Risposte di resistenza a batteri fitopatogeni di importanti specie coltivate indotte da molecole segnale di diversa natura
… IPV-BO G19 (Pseudomonas fluorescens) against fire blight (Erwinia amylovora), as well as to evaluate their efficacy against southern bacterial wilt of tomato (Ralstonia solanacearum) and grapevine crown gall (Agrobacterium vitis). A virulent strain of R. solanacearum race 3 was inhibited by …
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Structural Studies of Protein-Small Molecule Interactions: Bombyx Mori Pheromone Binding Protein Specificity for Bombykol, and the Substrate Specificity of Pantocin A Biosynthetic Proteins
… Erwinia amylovora, the pathogen that causes fire blight disease. The functional form of the substrate was explored through genetic manipulation of the biosynthetic pathway that produces pantocin A.
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Characterization of major virulence regulators of Erwinia amylovora
… amylovora is the causal agent of the devastating fire blight disease which is a major concern to the apple and pear industry. Fire blight costs millions of dollars of economic losses all over the world. Exopolysaccharide (EPS) amylovoran and type III secretion system (T3SS) are two major virulence …
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Investigation of cell-based therapies employing microcapsules and microspheres: encapsulation and controlled release
… plant pathogen Erwinia amylovora that causes fire blight, a devastating disease of apple and pear, have been investigated. To preserve viability and promote proliferation, E325 was encapsulated with nutrients in core/shell MCs. Controlled release of E325 was achieved by separately adjusting …
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Role of Flagellar Motility in Apple Blossom Invasion and Tactic Response to Various Plant Nectar Extracts by Erwinia Amylovora
… nM solutions provided consistent protection from fire blight infection at an inoculum concentration of approximately 5 x 10('5) cells per ml. A 0.1 M solution of either benzoate and salicylate, when sprayed to apple blossoms, was highly phytotoxic.
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