Topic summary
Soil-borne pathogen
A soil-borne pathogen (or soilborne pathogen) is a disease-causing agent which lives both in soil and in a planthost, and which will tend to infect undiseased plants which are grown in that soil. Common soil borne pathogens include Fusarium, Pythium, Rhizoctonia, Phytophthora, Verticillium, Rhizopus, Thielaviopsis, and nematodes including Meloidogyne.