Editing Fire blight (section)

==Association with Asian pear blight==
Asian pear blight, a disease affecting Japanese and Korean pears, has been associated with fire blight, including in the popular press.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-07-22-mn-26755-story.html |title=Caught in Cross-Fire of Pacific Apple War |author1=Helm, Leslie |author2=Eisenstodt, Gale |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=July 22, 1996 |access-date=August 9, 2010}}</ref> Genetic testing has shown Asian pear blight to be a variant of ''Erwinia pyrifoliae'', unrelated to fire blight.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Kim |first1=Won-Sik |last2=Hildebrand |first2=Maja |last3=Jock |first3=Susanne |last4=Geider |first4=Klaus |title=Molecular comparison of pathogenic bacteria from pear trees in Japan and the fire blight pathogen Erwinia amylovora |journal=Microbiology |date=2001 |volume=147 |issue=11 |pages=2951–2959 |doi=10.1099/00221287-147-11-2951 |doi-access=free |pmid=11700346 |issn=1465-2080}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |last1=Maxson-Stein |first1=Kimberly |last2=McGhee |first2=Gayle C. |last3=Smith |first3=James J. |last4=Jones |first4=Alan L. |last5=Sundin |first5=George W. |title=Genetic Analysis of a Pathogenic Erwinia sp. Isolated from Pear in Japan |journal=Phytopathology |date=November 2003 |volume=93 |issue=11 |pages=1393–1399 |doi=10.1094/PHYTO.2003.93.11.1393 |pmid=18944067 |url=https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/pdf/10.1094/PHYTO.2003.93.11.1393 |language=en |issn=0031-949X|url-access=subscription }}</ref>