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  • From: Thomas Olenio <tolenio@sentex.net>
  • To: North American Fruit Explorers <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [NAFEX] Fwd: Quenching Fire Blight
  • Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 17:07:38 -0500

Hi,

This is the same approach used in AQ10 for powdery mildew control.  Let one living organism crowd out or eat another.

Tom

Lon J. Rombough wrote:
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From: ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>
Date: March 25, 2005 11:08:56 AM PST
To: ARS News subscriber <lonrom@hevanet.com>
Subject: Quenching Fire Blight
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ARS News Service <NewsService@ars.usda.gov>

STORY LEAD:
Bacterium Tapped To Battle Fire Blight Disease in Tree Fruit
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ARS News Service
Agricultural Research Service, USDA
Jan Suszkiw, (301) 504-1630, jsuszkiw@ars.usda.gov
March 25, 2005
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Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists in Wenatchee, Wash., are fighting fire with fire--sort of.

Their fight is against Erwinia amylovora, the bacterium responsible for fire blight, a costly disease of apples, pears and other tree fruit. Controls include pruning, cultural practices and spraying infected trees with antibiotics. Resistance to one antibiotic, streptomycin, has emerged in fire blight strains of the Pacific Northwest.  

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