The Richard Peters Pear
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https://doi.org/10.71318/apom.1948.3.3.72Abstract
The Richard Peters pear was developed by Professor Ernest L. Nixon, for many years plant pathologist at the Pennsylvania State College. He was working on fire blight, studying the ways by which the bacterial organism lived over winter and how it entered the plant and spread through the plant tissues. Some of his studies were made on apples, and some on pears. To aid him in these studies, about 1925 he planted a large number of seeds of the Kieffer pear, and the seedlings were used for the purpose of inoculations with the fire-blight organism.
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