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21 Citations
6,535 Views
14 Pages

Phenotypic Evaluation of Fire Blight Outbreak in the USDA Malus Collection

  • Laura Dougherty,
  • Anna Wallis,
  • Kerik Cox,
  • Gan-Yuan Zhong and
  • Benjamin Gutierrez

14 January 2021

Fire blight, caused by pathogen Erwinia amylovora, is a major disease in Malus. Biological, chemical and cultural controls are efficient to manage fire blight, while rootstocks, and host resistance can limit damages. During the 2020 season a naturall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,483 Views
14 Pages

26 September 2024

We evaluated the effectiveness of three different treatment groups at managing apple shoot blight, and the resulting canker incidence and canker length on wood caused by Erwinia amylovora. Preventative foliar sprays or trunk injections of giant knotw...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,806 Views
26 Pages

Advancements in Bacteriophages for the Fire Blight Pathogen Erwinia amylovora

  • Dufang Ke,
  • Jinyan Luo,
  • Pengfei Liu,
  • Linfei Shou,
  • Munazza Ijaz,
  • Temoor Ahmed,
  • Muhammad Shafiq Shahid,
  • Qianli An,
  • Ivan Mustać and
  • Binggan Lou
  • + 3 authors

16 October 2024

Erwinia amylovora, the causative agent of fire blight, causes significant economic losses for farmers worldwide by inflicting severe damage to the production and quality of plants in the Rosaceae family. Historically, fire blight control has primaril...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,522 Views
22 Pages

Evaluation of the Efficacy of Three Antagonistic Bacteria Strains in the Management of Fire Blight

  • Jianhui Zhang,
  • Zhidong Zhang,
  • Yue Wen,
  • Jing Zhu,
  • Abudusufuer Wufuerjiang and
  • Jia Tian

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, poses a significant threat to the sustainable development of the Korla Xiangli (Pyrus×sinkiangensis. Yu) industry. In this study, we used multiple experimental approaches to comprehensively evaluate the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,546 Views
22 Pages

Identification of Apple Varieties Resistant to Fire Blight (Erwinia amylovora) Using Molecular Markers

  • Gulshariya Kairova,
  • Nurzhan Daulet,
  • Maxim Solomadin,
  • Nurlan Sandybayev,
  • Shynggys Orkara,
  • Vyacheslav Beloussov,
  • Nazym Kerimbek,
  • Dilyara Gritsenko and
  • Zagipa Sapakhova

Fire blight of fruit crops is one of the most dangerous diseases for apple trees and other plants of the Rosaceae family, and in Kazakhstan, it is subject to quarantine. To study the spread of fire blight, a phytopathological evaluation of 59 apple v...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,294 Views
19 Pages

Deciphering Fire Blight: From Erwinia amylovora Ecology to Genomics and Sustainable Control

  • Rafael J. Mendes,
  • Laura Regalado,
  • Fabio Rezzonico,
  • Fernando Tavares and
  • Conceição Santos

Fire blight is a highly destructive plant disease that affects the pome fruit value chain, with high economic impacts. Its etiological agent is the Gram-negative bacterium Erwinia amylovora. The origin of fire blight goes back to the late 1700s in No...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,728 Views
14 Pages

Evaluation of Fire Blight Resistance of Eleven Apple Rootstocks Grown in Kazakhstani Fields

  • Gulshariya Kairova,
  • Alexandr Pozharskiy,
  • Nurzhan Daulet,
  • Maxim Solomadin,
  • Nurlan Sandybayev,
  • Marina Khusnitdinova,
  • Gulnaz Nizamdinova,
  • Zagipa Sapakhova and
  • Dilyara Gritsenko

21 October 2023

Clonal rootstocks of apple trees are one of the main components of intensive horticulture, and they play an important role in regulating tree growth, yield, fruit quality, and resistance to biotic and abiotic stresses. In the two-year monitoring surv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,618 Views
12 Pages

25 April 2020

Controlling fire blight in pear production areas depends strongly on regular visual inspections of pome fruit orchards, nurseries and other hosts of Erwinia amylovora. In addition, these inspections play an essential role in delineating fire blight f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
6,999 Views
15 Pages

Fire Blight Disease Detection for Apple Trees: Hyperspectral Analysis of Healthy, Infected and Dry Leaves

  • Hubert Skoneczny,
  • Katarzyna Kubiak,
  • Marcin Spiralski,
  • Jan Kotlarz,
  • Artur Mikiciński and
  • Joanna Puławska

30 June 2020

The effective and rapid detection of Fire Blight, an important bacterial disease caused by the quarantine pest E.amylovora, is crucial for today’s horticulture. This study explored the application of non-invasive proximal hyperspectral remote sensing...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,265 Views
12 Pages

Wild Malus niedzwetzkyana Dieck ex Koehne as a Genetic Resource for Fire Blight Resistance

  • Mariya Kolchenko,
  • Aidana Nurtaza,
  • Alexandr Pozharskiy,
  • Damira Dyussembekova,
  • Anastasiya Kapytina,
  • Gulnaz Nizamdinova,
  • Marina Khusnitdinova,
  • Aisha Taskuzhina,
  • Almagul Kakimzhanova and
  • Dilyara Gritsenko

22 September 2023

Wild apples and their hybrids are valued as a source of genetic resistance to biotic and abiotic stress. Malus niedzwetzkyana is an endangered ornamental apple species endemic to Southeast Kazakhstan, the center of Malus domestication. To test the fi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,921 Views
21 Pages

Phage Cocktail in Combination with Kasugamycin as a Potential Treatment for Fire Blight Caused by Erwinia amylovora

  • Sang-Guen Kim,
  • Sung-Bin Lee,
  • Su-Jin Jo,
  • Kevin Cho,
  • Jung-Kum Park,
  • Jun Kwon,
  • Sib Sankar Giri,
  • Sang-Wha Kim,
  • Jeong-Woo Kang and
  • Se-Chang Park
  • + 3 authors

6 November 2022

Recently, there has been an increasing number of blight disease reports associated with Erwinia amylovora and Erwinia pyrifoliae in South Korea. Current management protocols that have been conducted with antibiotics have faced resistance problems and...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,291 Views
11 Pages

Fire blight, which is caused by the bacteria Erwinia amylovora, remains one of the most important diseases limiting the productivity of apple and pear orchards in the United States. In commercial orchards, in-season fire blight management relies excl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
995 Views
14 Pages

Antibiotic and Copper Sensitivity in Erwinia amylovora Isolates from Northern Saudi Arabia, and the Induction of Fire Blight Suppression by Salicylic Acid

  • Ali A. Al Masrahi,
  • Abdurrehman M. Rafique,
  • Abdullah F. Al Hashel,
  • Mohammed A. Al Saleh and
  • Yasser E. Ibrahim

17 October 2025

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is a severe disease impacting pome fruit production worldwide, including in Saudi Arabia. This study evaluated antibiotic sensitivity and the potential of chemical and elicitor treatments to suppress E. amylo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,384 Views
17 Pages

28 July 2023

Erwinia amylovora is a devastating phytobacterium causing fire blight in the Rosaceae family. In this study, ΦFifi106, isolated from pear orchard soil, was further purified and characterized, and its efficacy for the control of fire blight in app...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,957 Views
12 Pages

Identifying Fire Blight-Resistant Malus sieversii Rootstocks Grafted with Cultivar ‘Aport’ Using Monitoring Data

  • Aisha Taskuzhina,
  • Alexandr Pozharskiy,
  • Zhulduzay Jumanova,
  • Sagi Soltanbekov,
  • Zhanna Issina,
  • Nazym Kerimbek,
  • Anastasiya Kapytina,
  • Marina Khusnitdinova,
  • Abay Sagitov and
  • Dilyara Gritsenko
  • + 3 authors

In the present study, the most valuable cultivar ‘Aport krovavo-krasnyy’ was grafted onto M. sieversii genotypes harvested from 11 populations in Dzungarian Alatau and Ile Alatau to identify ones resistant to Erwinia amylovora. The wild a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,848 Views
17 Pages

Toward a Weather-Based Forecasting System for Fire Blight and Downy Mildew

  • Ana Firanj Sremac,
  • Branislava Lalić,
  • Milena Marčić and
  • Ljiljana Dekić

7 December 2018

The aim of this research is to present a weather-based forecasting system for apple fire blight (Erwinia amylovora) and downy mildew of grapevine (Plasmopara viticola) under Serbian agroecological conditions and test its efficacy. The weather-based f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,819 Views
15 Pages

In Vitro Approbation of Microbial Preparations to Shield Fruit Crops from Fire Blight: Physio-Biochemical Parameters

  • Asil A. Nurzhanova,
  • Aigerim Mamirova,
  • Valentina Mursaliyeva,
  • Asiya S. Nurmagambetova,
  • Zhadyra Zhumasheva,
  • Timur Turdiyev,
  • Svetlana Kushnarenko and
  • Elvira Ismailova

22 May 2024

The need for the increasing geographical spread of fire blight (FB) affecting fruit crops to be addressed led to large-scale chemicalization of the environmental matrices and reduction of plant productivity. The current study aimed to assess the effe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,625 Views
14 Pages

An Evaluation of Multi-Channel Sensors and Density Estimation Learning for Detecting Fire Blight Disease in Pear Orchards

  • Matthew Veres,
  • Cole Tarry,
  • Kristy Grigg-McGuffin,
  • Wendy McFadden-Smith and
  • Medhat Moussa

21 August 2024

Fire blight is an infectious disease found in apple and pear orchards. While managing the disease is critical to maintaining orchard health, identifying symptoms early is a challenging task which requires trained expert personnel. This paper presents...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,437 Views
21 Pages

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is a devastating bacterial disease threatening apple, pear, and other Rosaceae species. In our prior study, transcriptome analysis identified a fire blight-resistant variety, Duli (Pyrus betulifolia Bunge), a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,480 Views
12 Pages

Exploring Antimicrobial Peptides Efficacy against Fire Blight (Erwinia amylovora)

  • Miloud Sabri,
  • Kaoutar El Handi,
  • Franco Valentini,
  • Angelo De Stradis,
  • El Hassan Achbani,
  • Rachid Benkirane and
  • Toufic Elbeaino

26 December 2022

Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are a various group of molecules found in a wide range of organisms and act as a defense mechanism against different kinds of infectious pathogens (bacteria, viruses, and fungi, etc.). This study explored the antibacteri...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,123 Views
12 Pages

22 February 2021

Breeding apple cultivars with durable genetic resistance is a potential long-term solution to fire blight, a devastating bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora. However, phenotyping resistance/susceptibility to fire blight is challenging due t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,406 Views
16 Pages

Bacterial Lipopeptides Are Effective against Pear Fire Blight

  • Ihsan ud Din,
  • Lina Hu,
  • Yuan Jiang,
  • Jie Wei,
  • Muhammad Afzal and
  • Li Sun

Fire blight, a devastating disease caused by Erwinia amylovora, poses a significant threat to pear and apple trees in Xinjiang province, China. In an effort to combat this pathogen, we isolated 10 bacteria from various components of apple and crabapp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,553 Views
25 Pages

First European Erwinia amylovora Lytic Bacteriophage Cocktails Effective in the Host: Characterization and Prospects for Fire Blight Biocontrol

  • Elena G. Biosca,
  • Ricardo Delgado Santander,
  • Félix Morán,
  • Àngela Figàs-Segura,
  • Rosa Vázquez,
  • José Francisco Català-Senent and
  • Belén Álvarez

8 March 2024

Fire blight, caused by the plant-pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a highly contagious and difficult-to-control disease due to its efficient dissemination and survival and the scarcity of effective control methods. Copper and antibiotics are...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,171 Views
13 Pages

Susceptibility Evaluation to Fire Blight and Genome-Wide Associations within a Collection of Asturian Apple Accessions

  • Belén García-Fernández,
  • Ramon Dolcet-Sanjuan,
  • Diego Micheletti,
  • María José Antón-Díaz,
  • Cristina Solsona,
  • Mercedes Fernández,
  • Xavier Abad and
  • Enrique Dapena

4 December 2023

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most devastating apple diseases. The selection of cultivars of low susceptibility and the study of the genetic mechanisms of the disease play important roles in fire blight management. The susce...

  • Article
  • Open Access
920 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2025

Fire blight, a devastating bacterial disease caused by Erwinia amylovora, has posed significant challenges to apple and pear production for over a century. This study introduces a gliding filamentous bacterium, the strain NSD29, isolated from natural...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,969 Views
18 Pages

Evaluation of Three Antimicrobial Peptides Mixtures to Control the Phytopathogen Responsible for Fire Blight Disease

  • Rafael J. Mendes,
  • Sara Sario,
  • João Pedro Luz,
  • Natália Tassi,
  • Cátia Teixeira,
  • Paula Gomes,
  • Fernando Tavares and
  • Conceição Santos

30 November 2021

Fire blight is a severe bacterial plant disease that affects important chain-of-value fruit trees such as pear and apple trees. This disease is caused by Erwinia amylovora, a quarantine phytopathogenic bacterium, which, although highly distributed wo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
9,566 Views
26 Pages

Fire blight (FB), caused by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most important pome fruit pathogens worldwide. To control this devastating disease, various chemical and biological treatments are commonly applied in Switzerland, but they fail to keep the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,996 Views
17 Pages

Screening for Novel Beneficial Environmental Bacteria for an Antagonism-Based Erwinia amylovora Biological Control

  • Guillermo Esteban-Herrero,
  • Belén Álvarez,
  • Ricardo D. Santander and
  • Elena G. Biosca

Erwinia amylovora, the bacterial species responsible for fire blight, causes major economic losses in pome fruit crops worldwide. Chemical control is not always effective and poses a serious threat to the environment and human health. Social demands...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
371 Views
9 Pages

Comparison of Different Methods of Molecular Detection of Erwinia amylovora in Plant Material

  • Alexandr Pozharskiy,
  • Valeriya Kostyukova,
  • Gulnaz Nizamdinova and
  • Dilyara Gritsenko

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is one of the most damaging bacterial diseases affecting apple production and the safety of wild Malus sieversii populations in Central Asia. Effective monitoring relies on accurate molecular diagnostics; how...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,770 Views
12 Pages

Identification and Characterization of Erwinia Phage IT22: A New Bacteriophage-Based Biocontrol against Erwinia amylovora

  • Miloud Sabri,
  • Kaoutar El Handi,
  • Franco Valentini,
  • Angelo De Stradis,
  • El Hassan Achbani,
  • Rachid Benkirane,
  • Grégory Resch and
  • Toufic Elbeaino

5 November 2022

Erwinia amylovora is a quarantine phytopathogenic bacterium that is the causal agent of fire blight, a destructive disease responsible for killing millions of fruit-bearing plants worldwide, including apple, pear, quince, and raspberry. Efficient and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,932 Views
16 Pages

Improved Viability of Spray-Dried Pantoea agglomerans for Phage-Carrier Mediated Control of Fire Blight

  • Nassereldin Ibrahim,
  • Darlene Nesbitt,
  • Qian (Tracy) Guo,
  • Janet Lin,
  • Antonet Svircev,
  • Qi Wang,
  • Joel T. Weadge and
  • Hany Anany

6 February 2024

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is a devastating bacterial disease that threatens apple and pear production. It is mainly controlled by using antibiotics, such as streptomycin. Due to development of E. amylovora resistant strains and the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,182 Views
14 Pages

Erwinia amylovora, the causative agent of fire blight, leads to important economic losses of apple and pear crops worldwide. This study aimed to investigate the potential of the resident microbiota of the apple blossom in combatting plant disease-cau...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,301 Views
16 Pages

Phylogenetic Diversity and Quantitative PCR Detection of Erwinia amylovora in Xinjiang, China

  • Nuoya Fei,
  • Bo Song,
  • Jianpei Yan,
  • Haoyu Wei,
  • Tingchang Zhao,
  • Wei Guan,
  • Weiqin Ji and
  • Yuwen Yang

27 April 2025

Fire blight, a devastating bacterial disease affecting Rosaceae plants, particularly pear and apple, has recently emerged in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, causing significant damage to the local Pyrus sinkiangensis industry. Phylog...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,833 Views
15 Pages

The apple is a significant global fruit cultivated extensively worldwide. Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora (Ea), poses a significant threat to global apple production. To control this disease, characterizing the virulence mechanisms/factors i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,067 Views
15 Pages

Comparison of Biosensing Methods Based on Different Isothermal Amplification Strategies: A Case Study with Erwinia amylovora

  • Aleksandr V. Ivanov,
  • Irina V. Safenkova,
  • Natalia V. Drenova,
  • Anatoly V. Zherdev and
  • Boris B. Dzantiev

15 December 2022

Isothermal amplifications allow for the highly sensitive detection of nucleic acids, bypassing the use of instrumental thermal cycling. This work aimed to carry out an experimental comparison of the four most promising techniques: recombinase polymer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
723 Views
23 Pages

Plants exposed to combined abiotic and biotic stresses often exhibit complex physiological responses that cannot be predicted from single stress factors. In this study, we evaluated the interactive effects of temperature stress and Erwinia amylovora...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,233 Views
13 Pages

Pre- and Postharvest Factors Control the Disease Incidence of Superficial Scald in the New Fire Blight Tolerant Apple Variety “Ladina”

  • Laura Juliana Dällenbach,
  • Thomas Eppler,
  • Simone Bühlmann-Schütz,
  • Markus Kellerhals and
  • Andreas Bühlmann

27 March 2020

Superficial scald is a physiological disorder that develops during cold storage affecting apples and causes substantial market losses. Malus × domestica cv. Ladina, a new scab resistant and fire blight tolerant variety, commercialized in 2012, shows...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,140 Views
17 Pages

26 March 2024

Fire blight, caused by the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is a major threat to pear production worldwide. Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are a promising alternative to antibiotics for controlling fire blight. In this study, we isolated a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,011 Views
14 Pages

A Bifunctional Peptide Conjugate That Controls Infections of Erwinia amylovora in Pear Plants

  • Pau Caravaca-Fuentes,
  • Cristina Camó,
  • Àngel Oliveras,
  • Aina Baró,
  • Jesús Francés,
  • Esther Badosa,
  • Marta Planas,
  • Lidia Feliu,
  • Emilio Montesinos and
  • Anna Bonaterra

In this paper, peptide conjugates were designed and synthesized by incorporating the antimicrobial undecapeptide BP16 at the C- or N-terminus of the plant defense elicitor peptide flg15, leading to BP358 and BP359, respectively. The evaluation of the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,890 Views
13 Pages

15 September 2011

Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight disease of apples and pears, is one of the most important plant bacterial pathogens with worldwide economic significance. Recent reports on the complete or draft genome sequences of four species in t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,583 Views
22 Pages

Monochromic Radiations Provided by Light Emitted Diode (LED) Modulate Infection and Defense Response to Fire Blight in Pear Trees

  • Tiziana Sgamma,
  • Ivano Forgione,
  • Francesca Luziatelli,
  • Calogero Iacona,
  • Roberto Mancinelli,
  • Brian Thomas,
  • Maurizio Ruzzi and
  • Rosario Muleo

12 September 2021

Pathogenesis-related (PR) proteins are part of the systemic signaling network that perceives pathogens and activates defenses in the plant. Eukaryotic and bacterial species have a 24-h ‘body clock’ known as the circadian rhythm. This rhythm regulates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,029 Views
15 Pages

ZIF-93-Based Nanomaterials as pH-Responsive Drug Delivery Systems for Enhanced Antibacterial Efficacy of Kasugamycin in the Management of Pear Fire Blight

  • Chunli Chen,
  • Bin Hao,
  • Jincheng Shen,
  • Shuren Liu,
  • Hongzu Feng,
  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Chen Liu,
  • Yong Li and
  • Hongqiang Dong

25 June 2025

Kasugamycin (KSM) is easily affected by photolysis, acid–base destruction, and oxidative decomposition in the natural environment, leading to its poor durability and low effective utilization rate, which affects its control effect on plant bact...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,581 Views
23 Pages

Comparative Analysis of Phenotypic and Molecular Data on Response to Main Pear Diseases and Pest Attack in a Germplasm Collection

  • Leontina I. Simionca Mărcășan,
  • Ion Oltean,
  • Sergiu Popa,
  • Mariola Plazas,
  • Santiago Vilanova,
  • Pietro Gramazio,
  • Adriana F. Sestras,
  • Jaime Prohens and
  • Radu E. Sestras

The pear is an important fruit tree in temperate areas, but due to its sensitivity, fruit yield and quality are often affected by disease and pest attacks. Pear genotypes from a germplasm collection comprising 13 Pyrus species, 17 Romanian varieties,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,128 Views
11 Pages

25 November 2023

Erwinia amylovora is a Gram-negative bacterium, responsible for the fire blight disease in Rosaceae plants. Its virulence is correlated with the production of an exopolysaccharide (EPS) called amylovoran, which protects the bacterium from the surroun...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
12,342 Views
24 Pages

Champacyclin, a New Cyclic Octapeptide from Streptomyces Strain C42 Isolated from the Baltic Sea

  • Alexander Pesic,
  • Heike I. Baumann,
  • Katrin Kleinschmidt,
  • Paul Ensle,
  • Jutta Wiese,
  • Roderich D. Süssmuth and
  • Johannes F. Imhoff

2 December 2013

New isolates of Streptomyces champavatii were isolated from marine sediments of the Gotland Deep (Baltic Sea), from the Urania Basin (Eastern Mediterranean), and from the Kiel Bight (Baltic Sea). The isolates produced several oligopeptidic secondary...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,501 Views
17 Pages

In Vitro Evaluation of Five Antimicrobial Peptides against the Plant Pathogen Erwinia amylovora

  • Rafael J. Mendes,
  • Laura Regalado,
  • João P. Luz,
  • Natália Tassi,
  • Cátia Teixeira,
  • Paula Gomes,
  • Fernando Tavares and
  • Conceição Santos

9 April 2021

Fire blight is a major pome fruit trees disease that is caused by the quarantine phytopathogenic Erwinia amylovora, leading to major losses, namely, in pear and apple productions. Nevertheless, no effective sustainable control treatments and measures...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,689 Views
16 Pages

Characterizations of Newly Isolated Erwinia amylovora Loessnervirus-like Bacteriophages from Hungary

  • Elene Lomadze,
  • György Schneider,
  • Szilvia Papp,
  • Dominika Bali,
  • Roberta Princz-Tóth and
  • Tamás Kovács

6 May 2025

This study explores alternative methods to combat bacterial infections like fire blight caused by Erwinia amylovora (Ea) using bacteriophages as potential antimicrobial agents. Two lytic phages, Ea PF 7 and Ea PF 9, were isolated from apple samples a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
146 Citations
17,376 Views
19 Pages

Virulence Factors of Erwinia amylovora: A Review

  • Núria Piqué,
  • David Miñana-Galbis,
  • Susana Merino and
  • Juan M. Tomás

5 June 2015

Erwinia amylovora, a Gram negative bacteria of the Enterobacteriaceae family, is the causal agent of fire blight, a devastating plant disease affecting a wide range of host species within Rosaceae and a major global threat to commercial apple and pea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,255 Views
16 Pages

10 September 2021

Phytochemicals are essential raw materials for the production of formulations that can be helpful in crop protection. In particular, Hibiscus spp., which are often used in traditional medicine, are rich in potential bioactive molecules. This study pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
982 Views
23 Pages

Multi-Omic Analysis of Bacteriophage-Insensitive Mutants Reveals a Putative Role for the Rcs Two-Component Phosphorelay System in Phage Resistance Development in Erwinia amylovora

  • Nassereldin Ibrahim,
  • Janet T. Lin,
  • Darlene Nesbitt,
  • Joshua Tang,
  • Dharamdeo Singh,
  • Lawrence D. Goodridge,
  • Dion Lepp,
  • Antonet M. Svircev,
  • Joel T. Weadge and
  • Hany Anany

9 November 2025

Phage therapy has garnered significant attention due to the rise of life-threatening multidrug-resistant pathogenic bacteria and the growing awareness of the transfer of resistance genes between pathogens. Considering this, phage therapy applications...

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