Journal of Integrative Agriculture ›› 2019, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 815-820.DOI: 10.1016/S2095-3119(18)62033-7

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  • 收稿日期:2018-02-11 出版日期:2019-04-01 发布日期:2019-04-01

Fire blight disease, a fast-approaching threat to apple and pear production in China

ZHAO Yu-qiang1*, TIAN Yan-li2*, WANG Li-min2, GENG Guo-min1, ZHAO Wen-jun3, HU Bai-shi2, ZHAO You-fu
  

  1. 1 Jiangsu Key Laboratory for the Research and Utilization of Plant Resources, Institute of Botany, Jiangsu Province and Chinese Academy of Sciences (Nanjing Botanical Garden Mem. Sun Yat-Sen), Nanjing 210014, P.R.China
    2 College of Plant Protection, Nanjing Agricultural University/Key Laboratory of Integrated Management of Crop Diseases and Pests, Ministry of Education, Nanjing 210095, P.R.China
    3 Chinese Academy of Inspection and Quarantine, Beijing 100029, P.R.China
    4 Department of Crop Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana 61801, USA
  • Received:2018-02-11 Online:2019-04-01 Published:2019-04-01
  • Contact: Correspondence HU Bai-shi, Tel: +86-25-84396012, E-mail: hbs@njau.edu.cn; ZHAO You-fu, Tel: +1-217-2659822, E-mail: Zhao888@illinois.edu
  • About author:ZHAO Yu-qiang, E-mail: 864130936@qq.com; TIAN Yan-li, E-mail: tianyanli@njau.edu.cn; * These authors contributed equally to this study.
  • Supported by:
    This research was supported by the National Key R&D Program of China (2016YFC1201200) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31500107 and 31772231).

Abstract:

Fire blight, caused by Erwinia amylovora, is a devastating disease of apples and pears, causing enormous economic losses around the world.  The disease is indigenous to North America and has spread to more than 50 countries since its discovery in 1870s.  Recent reports of the disease in China’s neighboring countries, including South Korea, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan, pose great threat to the world’s leading producer of apples and pears.  This mini-review intends to provide an update on the disease, pathogen biology, epidemiology, and control.  It will also provide some perspectives and suggestions for the apple and pear industry and growers in China, which will face the imminent threat of this devastating disease.  
 

Key words: fire blight ,  Erwinia amylovora ,  biology ,  epidemiology ,  disease control