The enterobacterial phytopathogen Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight, an invasive
disease that threatens a wide range of commercial and ornamental Rosaceae host plants …

Plants are host to a large amount of pathogenic bacteria. Fire blight, caused by the
bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is an important disease in Rosaceae. Pathogenicity of E …

Chitosan is one of the most abundant carbohydrate biopolymers in the world and chitosan
oligosaccharide (COS), which is prepared from chitosan, is a plant immunity regulator. The …

Fire blight, caused by the necrogenic Gram-negative bacterium Erwinia amylovora, is one of
the most destructive bacterial diseases of apple (Malus× domestica) and pear (Pyrus …

Proteins belonging to the newly identified Cerato‐platanin (CP) family have been shown to
have elicitor activity in inducing disease resistance responses in various plants. In this study …

Harpin proteins from gram-negative plant-pathogenic bacteria can stimulate hypersensitive
cell death (HCD) and pathogen defense as well as enhance growth in plants. Two of these …

Citrus variegated chlorosis (CVC) and coffee leaf scorch (CLS) are two economically
important diseases in Brazil caused by the bacterium Xylella fastidiosa. Strains of the …

Plant innate immunity is a potential basal defense system existing in plant kingdom. This
system provides powerful weapons to the host plants to fight against viral, bacterial, fungal …

Pathogen-associated molecular patterns, PAMPs, are a diverse group of molecules
associated with pathogenic microbes and are known to activate immune response and in …

An important issue related to the epidemiology of fire blight, a devastating disease of apples
and pears, is how its causal agent, the bacterium Erwinia amylovora, survives and …