Experimental enzyme shows promise against fire blight disease, by Marya Barlow, Virginia Tech News, 10 August 2026.
Carnegie Mellon Team Helps Farmers Fight Crop Disease With Robots Student-Developed System Wins Award at Farm Robotics Challenge, by Mallory Lindahl, 11 June 2026
AMIGA Innovation award to The Fire Blighters – Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA), 21 May 2026.
Fighting fire blight in pear orchards takes aggressive pruning, by Kyle Odegard, Capital Press, 19 July 2024.
Acimovic takes aim to stop fire blight, The Delmarva Farmer, 21 June 2024.
Leading the way in the battle against fire blight, Virginia Tech News, 18 June 2024.
Virginia Tech researchers are leading the way in the battle against fire blight, Virginia Tech YouTube channel, 18 June 2024.
Virginia Tech gets $5.7M grant to develop fire blight management tools by Christina Herrick, The Packer, 22 Mar 2024.
Va. Tech Secures $5.7 Million USDA Grant to Combat Fire Blight, Morning AgClips, 5 Mar 2024.
Virginia Tech secures $5.7 million USDA grant to combat fire blight, by , Virginia Tech News, 5 Mar 2024.
Coast-to-coast research battles fire blight in apples, pears. Doug Ohlemeier, Fruit Grower News, 9 June 2023.
Virginia Tech researchers fight fire blight’s plight on apple production, EurekaAlert! & AAAS, 3 Apr 2023.
Virginia Tech researchers fight fire blight’s plight on apple production, by Mary Hardbarger, Virginia Tech News, 24 Mar 2023.
Follow up from 2023 VTFGA / UVM Fruit Grower meeting. University of Vermont, Terence Bradshaw, Feb 26, 2023.
Italian orchards growing into the multiverse, by Ross Courtney, Good Fruit Grower, January 19, 2023.
Orchard Outlook Podcast (2022): E4 S3. Springing into Scab Season – Part 2 : Guest Dr. Srdjan Acimovic: https://anchor.fm/orchard-outlook/episodes/E4-S3–Part-2-Springing-into-Scab-Season-Guest-Dr–Srdjan-Acimovic-e1fta7g
Orchard Outlook Podcast (2022): E3 S3. Springing into Scab Season – Part 1: Guest Dr. Srdjan Acimovic: https://anchor.fm/orchard-outlook/episodes/E3-S3–Part-1-Springing-into-Scab-Season-Guest-Dr–Srdjan-Acimovic-e1fta1k
New York faces a new reality with fire blight, by Matt Milkovich, Good Fruit Grower, 26 April 2022.
Lenticel damage among problems in Honeycrisp and other varieties. Fruit Grower News, Anna Wallis and Amy Irish-Brown, Michigan State University Extension, 6 Oct 2021.