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http://dx.doi.org/10.5423/RPD.2020.26.4.239

Outbreak of Fire Blight of Apple and Pear and Its Characteristics in Korea in 2019  

Ham, Hyeonheui (Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Kyong Jae (Disaster Management Division, Extension Service Bureau, Rural Development Administration)
Hong, Seong Jun (Disaster Management Division, Extension Service Bureau, Rural Development Administration)
Kong, Hyun Gi (Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Mi-Hyun (Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
Kim, Hyun-Ran (Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
Lee, Yong Hwan (Crop Protection Division, National Institute of Agricultural Sciences, Rural Development Administration)
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Research in Plant Disease / v.26, no.4, 2020 , pp. 239-249 More about this Journal
Abstract
To find out the cause of the fire blight outbreak in apples and pears of Korea in 2019, we investigated disease appearing situation of thirty fire blight infected orchards, and interviewed farmers to determine the cultivation characteristics. Fire blight occurred mostly in orchards that had infected more than 2 years before. The cause of this were as follows: farmers did not know the symptoms of the disease properly. It is presumed that it has spread from the first occurrence to the surrounding orchards by flower-visiting insects or farmers and to a short distance or a long distance by the same cultivator or co-farmer. These series of processes repeated in the newly spreading area, and then disease reports increased as farmers became aware of fire blight. To minimize the spread of fire blight in Korea, it suggested that thorough education of farmers for early diagnosis and quantitative detection technology that can diagnose even in no symptom showing plants. And chemical or biological spraying systems suitable for domestic cultivation methods, which are producing large fruits, and molecular epidemiological studies of pathogens.
Keywords
Apple; Fire blight; Outbreak characteristics; Pear;
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