Management of the soil-borne fungal pathogen – Verticillium dahliae Kleb. causing vascular wilt diseases

Abstract Vascular wilt diseases caused by Verticillium dahliae Kleb. are difficult to control and lead increasing losses of many crops worldwide. It can cause disease on not only horticultural but also economically important such vegetables, legumes, forest trees, woody herbaceous plants. Reasons this situation various: (i) the specialization crop production resulted in accumulation pathogen soil, especially monoculture production; (ii) lack an efficient safe soil fumigation method; (iii) large amounts survival structures—microslerotia melanized hyphae that resistant chemical biological degradation. Due effective synthetic agents for eradication V. from considerable interest paper has been focused control, selection microorganisms with mycoparasitic activity towards microsclerotia, decrease their number soil. The main attention is paid Trichoderma fungi, non pathogenic Fusarium spp., Talaromyces flavus bacteria Bacillus Pseudomonas spp. Streptomyces discussed review. In work suppressive effect organic amendments against soil-borne mentioned. addition biofumigation using toxic plant materials, which approach management could be method .