Fire blight in Georgia

The bacterium Erwinia amylovora was detected by real time and conventional PCR methods using specific primers and thus the fire blight disease confirmed in 23 samples of plant material from Shida Kartli (11 apples, 6 pear and 6 quince samples), in 5 samples from Kvemo Kartli (1 quince and 4 apple samples), in 2 samples of apples from Kakheti region and 1 sample of pear collected in Imereti (Zestafoni).