Fighting fire blight

摘要

Anew study by researchers in New York shows that antibiotics remain the tool of choice for fire blight prevention in conventional apple orchards and that Apogee can be used in young blocks without limiting growth.Fire blight hit Eastern New York growers especially hard this year and never stopped, thanks to a one-two punch of heat and some untimely early summerwindstorms in the Lake Champlain and Hudson Valley apple growing regions. "All it takes is a few storms and 30 to 40 bacteria and you've got trouble," said Kerik Cox, Cornell University School of Integrative Plant Science associate professor.