Pruning these trees during the winter can lead to detrimental fungal and bacterial canker diseases, including Eutypa dieback, Botryosphaeria canker and bacterial canker.

You can do a lot to prevent or control hardwood diseases including canker disease. Here is a brief discussion on tree canker disease.

We saw die-back in trees coming out of winter. In some cases, it is environmental stress from drought stress and winter ...

Citrus canker, a serious bacterial disease, has spread to local fruit trees Dan Gill, The Times-Picayune garden columnist Jul 25, 2013 4 min to read ...

If your plum tree is bleeding sap, it may be affected by canker, or by other forms of fungal or bacterial diseases, like pseudomonas.

Bacterial canker, a common disease of cherry trees, frequently causes gumming and dead areas or “cankers” on limbs. If it infects the crown or trunk, it can kill the tree.

Want to know what's ailing nearby trees? This index of common tree diseases and pathogens can help you identify and prevent further decay.

Citrus Greening is a bacterial disease (Candidatus Liberibacter Asiaticus), spread by the Asian citrus psyllid. Citrus Canker is an incurable bacterial disease.

Chinese scientists have recently made a breakthrough in this area, however, by showing that a widespread plant defense metabolite may help combat bacterial diseases in crops. The metabolite ...

Fire blight is a serious bacterial disease that attacks this type of tree and can also cause cankers and dieback in the crown when severe enough.

The bacterial nursery strain primarily causes spots on leaves in tree nurseries, unlike the more virulent Asiatic form of canker, which has attacked mature trees and fruit in several western ...

Cankers are caused by a fungi or bacteria. Most pathogens are unable to penetrate bark directly, making vigorous, healthy trees better able to avoid them. Canker pathogens take advantage of ...