Management of Fusarium wilt of chickpea is difficult, as no
single control measure is fully effective. Solarization of soil,
advanced sowing date, use of FOC-free seed and fungicide-treated
seed are some of the measures usually employed to control
Fusarium wilt in chickpea, but with limited success (Jalali and
Chand, 1992; Haware et al., 1996; Navas-Cortes et al., 1998). The
use of resistant cultivar is the most economical and efficient control
measure but the effectiveness of Fusarium wilt resistance is
restricted by the occurrence of eight pathogenic races in FOC, due to
evolution of variability in the pathogen (Haware and Nene, 1982;
Jimenez-Gasco and Jimenez-Diaz, 2003).