First Report of Erwinia amylovora Fire Blight in Belarus |
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| Authors: | Alexander L Lagonenko Veronika S Komardina Yevgeny A Nikolaichik and Anatoli N Evtushenkov |
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| Institution: | Authors' addresses: Department of Molecular Biology, Biology Faculty, Belarusian State University, F. Skoryna av. 4, 220050 Minsk, Belarus;;Department of Stone Fruit Pathology, Institute of Plant Protection, National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, Mira st. 2, 223011 Priluki, Belarus (correspondence to A. N. Evtushenkov. E-mail: ) |
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| Abstract: | Erwinia amylovora is a phytopathogenic bacterium that causes fire blight, an economically important disease of Rosaceae . Several isolates from pears and apples with fire blight symptoms from Belarus were identified as E. amylovora . All tested isolates were yellow and mucoid on MM2Cu medium, positive in levan production and showed pathogenicity in immature pear fruits. These isolates have identical total protein patterns with E. amylovora 1/79. The PCR with specific primers for E. amylovora harpin gene also gave positive results. |
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| Keywords: | fire blight pathogenicity PCR hrpN |
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