DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Fruit with white, curling strands of bacteria.
Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Mummified fruit with strands of bacterial ooze.
Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Close-up of bacterial strands on fruit. These strands detach and drift with the wind.
Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth, S. Thomson
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Cankers on trunk often serve as overwintering sites for the pathogen.
Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Diseased twig with typical crook neck. Note yellowish orange bacterial ooze.
Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean
Common bean with systemic chlorosis and distorted leaves.
Halo blight | Bean
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola
SOURCE: A. Hayward
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean
Pods with water-soaked lesions and greasy spots.
Halo blight | Bean
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola
SOURCE: A. Hayward
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean
Late stage of halo blight with expanded necrotic lesions with no signs of water-soaking or halos.
Halo blight | Bean
DISEASE: Halo blight
HOST: Bean (Phaseolus vulgaris)
PATHOGEN: Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. phaseolicola
SOURCE: S. Thomson
DISEASE: Pear decline
HOST: Pear
Healthy pear shoot (left) and diseased shoots (center and right). Leaves are reddish and growth is stunted.
Pear decline | Pear
DISEASE: Pear decline
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: 'Candidatus Phytoplasma pyri'
PATHOGEN SYNONYM: Phytoplasma Apple proliferation group
SOURCE: S. Thomson