Examples of fire blight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web For example, newer cultivars of flowering crabapple trees are usually resistant to apple scab and fire blight, diseases that disfigure many older trees. — Beth Botts, chicagotribune.com, 19 Sep. 2021 Answer: Put your pear tree on a lean diet to prevent excessive growth that is often affected by a disease known as fire blight. — Tom Maccubbin, orlandosentinel.com, 27 Feb. 2021 Pineapple is a popular variety for its quality fruit (better for cooking than fresh eating) and resistance to fire blight, a bacterial disease that causes flowers and leaves at the ends of branches to suddenly turn black as if burned. — Dan Gill, NOLA.com, 3 Feb. 2021 George Sundin, a fruit-tree pathologist at Michigan State University, said in 2019, about fire blight, the most recent major threat to apples. — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 8 June 2020 The limiting factor on pears is the disease fire blight. — Calvin Finch, ExpressNews.com, 16 Jan. 2020 Rapid regrowth fosters fire blight bacterial infection. — Neil Sperry, ExpressNews.com, 30 Aug. 2019 The 20 or so specimens featured in the Harvard Museum of Natural History’s upcoming Fruits in Decay exhibition suffer from an array of ailments: among others, peach leaf curl, pear scab, gray mold, brown rot, blue mold and fire blight. — Meilan Solly, Smithsonian, 29 Aug. 2019 We're being warned by the Pacific Northwest Pest Alert Network to watch out for fire blight this spring. — Margaret Lauterbach, idahostatesman, 26 Apr. 2018

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