A number of non-chemical pre-plant approaches are being
evaluated or are in commercial use for dealing with soilborne
pathogens such as Fof. In most cases, these approaches require
particular soil or environmental conditions to be effective and therefore do not work in all situations or are not possible in all
production fields. The planting of broccoli or other brassicaceous
plants such as mustard, or the importing and incorporating of
brassicaceous crop residues, creates a biofumigation effect that
suppresses soilborne pathogens (Muramoto et al., 2014; Njoroge
et al., 2011; Subbarao et al., 1999). This approach has proven to be
effective on various Fusarium pathogens (Relevante and Cumagun,
2013).