Fire blight : the disease and its causative agent, Erwinia amylovora / edited by Joël L. Vanneste, HortResearch, Hamilton, New Zealand.
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TextPublisher: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2000Copyright date: 2000Description: 1 online resource (xi, 370 pages, 4 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, chartsContent type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- Fire-blight
- Erwinia amylovora -- Control
- Horticultural Crops, (New March 2000)
- Viral, Bacterial and Fungal Diseases of Plants, (New March 2000)
- Enterobacteriaceae
- Erwinia amylovora
- Malus
- Plants
- Pyrus
- Apples
- Bacterial diseases
- Chemical control
- Disease resistance
- Economics
- Epidemiology
- Fungicide tolerance
- Genetically engineered organisms
- Geographical distribution
- Host range
- Nurseries
- Orchards
- Pears
- Plant disease control
- Plant diseases
- Plant pathogenic bacteria
- Plant pathogens
- Pome fruits
- Risk assessment
- Toxins
- Transgenic plants
- FF003
- FF610
- 632/.32 23
- SB741.F6 F57 2000eb
This book is the first multi-authored book on fire blight, the most devastating bacterial disease of apples and pears. It is divided into three sections. The first section is about the disease: its epidemiology, its worldwide distribution and its economic importance, the host range of the pathogen and how it migrates and survives in the fruit tissues. The second section is about the causal agent, Erwinia amylovora: its general characteristics as a member of the Enterobacteriaceae, but also the weapons it uses to cause disease: amylovoran, harpin, avirulence factors and siderophores. In the third section, the authors address the difficult problems of fire blight control. They look at chemical control, problems associated with streptomycin resistance, potential and limitations of traditional breeding and transgenic plants, and risk assessment strategies for the control of fire blight in orchards and in nurseries.
Includes bibliographic citations and index.
What is Fire Blight? Who is Erwinia amylovora? How to Control It? / Joël L. Vanneste -- Epidemiology of Fire Blight / Sherman V. Thomson -- Distribution and Economic Importance of Fire Blight / W. Gordon Bonn and Tom van der Zwet -- Genetic Diversity and Host Range of Erwinia amylovora / M. Timur Momol and Herb S. Aldwinckle -- Migration of Erwinia amylovora in Host Plant Tissues / Joël L. Vanneste and Simon Eden-Green -- Erwinia amylovora : General Characteristics, Biochemistry and Serology / Jean-Pierre Paulin -- Exopolysaccharides of Erwinia amylovora : Structure, Biosynthesis, Regulation, Role in Pathogenicity of Amylovoran and Levan / Klaus Geider -- hrp Genes and Harpins of Erwinia amylovora : a Decade of Discovery / Jihyun F. Kim and Steven V. Beer -- Disease-specific Genes of Erwinia amylovora : Keys to Understanding Pathogenesis and Potential Targets for Disease Control / Adam J. Bogdanove, Jihyun F. Kim and Steven V. Beer -- Iron and Fire Blight : Role in Pathogenicity of Desferrioxamine E, the Main Siderophore of Erwinia amylovora / Dominique Expert, Alia Dellagi and Remy Kachadourian -- Chemical Control of Fire Blight / Peter G. Psallidas and John Tsiantos -- The Development of Streptomycin-resistant Strains of Erwinia amylovora / Alan L. Jones and Elise L. Schnabel -- Breeding for Resistance to Fire Blight / Yves Lespinasse and Herb S. Aldwinckle -- Transgenic Varieties and Rootstocks Resistant to Fire Blight / John L. Norelli and Herb S. Aldwinckle -- Fire Blight Risk Assessment Systems and Models / Eve Billing -- Biological Control of Fire Blight / Kenneth B. Johnson and Virginia O. Stockwell -- Integrated Orchard and Nursery Management for the Control of Fire Blight / Paul W. Steiner.
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