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How to Manage Pests

UC Pest Management Guidelines


Fusarium root rot of bean.

Dry Beans

Fusarium Root Rot

Pathogens:
Fusarium solani f. sp. phaseoli (blackeyes, common bean) and
Fusarium solani f. sp. pisi (garbanzo beans)

(Reviewed 8/07, updated 8/07)

In this Guideline:


SYMPTOMS

Fusarium root rot is characterized by brick red lesions of variable size with diffuse margins that develop on belowground stems and tap roots. The red color gradually turns brown with age. Longitudinal fissures develop in the cortical tissue of affected areas. In severe infections, the entire root system may be attacked and destroyed. If the surface of the lesion is scraped away, small red flecks can be seen in affected tissue; this is a good diagnostic characteristic. In some plants, roots are initiated above the lesion.

COMMENTS ON THE DISEASE

The causal fungi survive for several years as chlamydospores in the soil. The disease is most commonly encountered during mid- to late season in fields with a long history of bean culture. The disease causes little damage to unstressed plants but under conditions of reduced root growth caused by drought, poor nutrition, or oxygen stress caused by wet soil, Fusarium root rot can cause early maturity (early cutout) and marked reduction in yield.

MANAGEMENT

Long-term (3 years) crop rotation out of beans may reduce soil inoculum. Provide optimal growing conditions, avoiding stress caused by excess water, prolonged drought, soil compaction, etc. Although no bean line is immune, some cultivars are more tolerant to the disease than others.

PUBLICATION

[UC Peer Reviewed]

UC IPM Pest Management Guidelines: Dry Beans
UC ANR Publication 3446
Diseases
R. M. Davis, Plant Pathology, UC Davis
Acknowledgment for contributions to Abiotic Disorders:
A. E. Hall, Botany and Plant Sciences, UC Riverside
Acknowledgment for contributions to virus sections in Diseases:
R. L. Gilbertson, Plant Pathology, UC Davis
Acknowledgment for co-authorship of Ascochyta Blight:
C. A. Frate, UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare Co.

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