These results elucidate the role and importance of rootstock infections for apple tree survival, the presence of latent fire blight infections, and the valuable utility of molecular detection methods to assist apple tree removal after epidemics.įire blight, a bacterial disease of pome fruit trees, is becoming more damaging due to warmer and wetter weather patterns in spring ( Menzel et al., 2006 Keenan et al., 2014 Ault et al., 2015 Griffiths, 2021). amylovora rootstock strains showed slight variability in enzymatic activity, copper sensitivity, virulence, and exopolysaccharide production. However, the PCR from sampled edge rootstocks one year later showed no pathogen detections. One year later, 20.8 – 56.3% cankered rootstocks were detected on the edge trees and from zero to 35.4% dead edge trees were recorded.
amylovora detection rates of 10.7 – 45.3% in asymptomatic rootstocks on the edge trees immediately surrounding visibly infected i.e. In the first year, most of the orchards showed E. amylovora strains collected from these seven orchards and other orchards in New York were characterized. Each infection focus consisted of central rootstock-blighted tree and the nearest surrounding edge trees showing no rootstock blight.
Rootstock canker incidence and tree death were rated in selected infection foci on seven commercial apple orchards in New York. amylovora in symptomatic and asymptomatic rootstocks for two years. To determine apple tree losses caused by fire blight rootstock infections, PCR was used to detect E. Accurate fire blight diagnosis is necessary to inform the complete removal of infected trees from the orchard and help replanting efforts while preventing further pathogen dissemination. amylovora in apple rootstocks is essential because this pathogen also causes asymptomatic infections. An accurate diagnosis of trunk and rootstock blight is a top challenge for apple growers because fire blight cankers can be visually misdiagnosed with cankers caused by less frequent Oomycete and fungal pathogens (e.g., Phytophthora spp., Botryosphaeria dothidea, B.
Cankers can girdle the trunk, branches and rootstock leading to tree death and production losses, especially significant in high-density orchards. Fire blight cankers are infected zones of dead bark on perennial branches, trunk, or rootstock that develop after fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora invades wood.
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