How to Manage Pests

UC Pest Management Guidelines

SYMPTOMS

This disease occurs on blackeyes as well as on other dry bean types. Brown to black necrotic tissue develops on the below ground stems and roots. Fissures often develop in necrotic cortex tissue. Using a compound microscope the fungus can be identified in diseased tissue by the production of dark chlamydospores.

COMMENTS ON THE DISEASE

The fungus survives over a year in soil as chlamydospores. In blackeyes, Thielaviopsis basicola appears to be active on affected roots throughout the growing season.

MANAGEMENT

Long-term crop rotation to nonsusceptible crops such as grasses may help to reduce soil inoculum. Avoiding excess irrigation or long drought stress may help.

PUBLICATION

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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