Bean root rot management: Recommendations based on an integrated approach for plant disease control

A systematic understanding of agro-ecosystems suppressing soil-borne plant pathogens is one of the most desired objectives in plant disease management. Large-scale detection of agro-ecological descriptors of variations among crop-disease pathosystems will certainly save time to screen a wider range of conditions and identify more effective factors, to further examine at smaller scales, and to develop an integrated crop-disease management program. Therefore, a fairly comprehensive array of agronomic and environmental traits was examined across commercial fields cultivated with the common bean, Phaseolus vulgaris L. Then, ten factors chosen according to practical relevance to root rot epidemics and bean production were studied in laboratory, greenhouse or experimental field. The advantages and findings of this case study as a useful framework in plant pathology were discussed in this short review.