An experimental enzyme significantly reduced fire blight in apple orchard field trials, offering growers a promising new way to fight one of the fruit industry's most destructive diseases.
Experimental enzyme shows promise against fire blight disease
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Fire blight is one of the most destructive diseases affecting apple and pear production. From left, an infected apple orchard and blossom blight illustrate the disease that researchers are targeting with a promising new enzyme-based treatment.
From left, Virginia Tech doctoral student Nathanial Boeckman and associate professor Srdjan Acimovic show a tree branch infected with fire blight and a Petri dish with the bacteria Erwinia amylovora, which causes fire blight.
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