Advances in Control of Watermelon Wilt Disease

Watermelon wilt disease is a soil epidemic which affects the growth of watermelon badly.The advances and localization on control watermelon wilt disease have been reviewed in the paper.Resisting breeding is the most simple and effective method.But the germ plasm is confined,the physiological strains of Fusarium oxyporum fsp.niveum differentiate continuously,the nosogenesis of watemelon wilt disease has not been clarified,the inheritance of resistanting is complicated,etc,The above mentioned problems baffle resisting breeding.The prospect of application of the biological technology on resistance breeding to watermelon wilt disease was also discussed.