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fire blight
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear
Fruit with white, curling strands of bacteria.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fire blight | Pear
DISEASE: Fire blight
HOST: Pear (Pyrus communis)
PATHOGEN: Erwinia amylovora
SOURCE: M. Schroth