Peach trees can be attacked by aphids, birds, red spider mites, earwigs and root-knot nematodes. Diseases include botrytis, bacterial canker and peach leaf curl.

Bacterial pathogens, such as those causing rice bacterial blight, tomato bacterial wilt, and kiwifruit bacterial canker, pose ...

Bacterial canker is the main threat to the tree’s survival, as infected trees may only last 10 years. Gardeners here know San Antonio is plagued by shallow soils and too-frequent drought.

Report on Fungus, Bacterial and other Diseases of Crops in England and Wales for the Years 1943–1946 By W. C. Moore. (Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, Bulletin No. 139.) Pp. vi+90+12 plates.