Fire blight is a serious bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora that affects various fruit trees, particularly apples and pears. This disease poses significant challenges to fruit ...

Fire blight infects ornamental fruit trees such as this callery pear, a popular landscape tree. Symptoms include cankers on branches, wilted shoots and blacked leaves, which give trees a “scorched” ...

Blight is one such disease affecting plants ... can appear on green fruit, whilst more mature fruits will decay rapidly.

Research has long established that UV light kills microbes. It’s now a matter of figuring out how to incorporate it ...