Among disease control management, the use
of resistant cultivars is the cheapest, easiest, safest
and most effective means of controlling the disease.
This is not only to eliminate losses from the disease
but also decrease the cost of chemical and mechanical
control, as well as reduce contamination of the environment
from the use of toxic chemicals. However,
management of disease through breeding of pathogen-resistant
cultivars has only had limited success
due to frequent breakdown of resistance under field
conditions. Commercial cultivars of Capsicum annuum
resistant to the pathogens that cause anthracnose
have not yet been developed