ISSN: 2474-8846
Authors: Cubillos G*
Root decay is a disease that causes the death of the cacao and shade trees affected and slowly disseminates forming patches of dead trees within the crop. It is caused by Rosellinia spp. but in Colombia the most common specie is Rosellinia pepo. Although cultural control is the recommended practice, however, the results and costs of the work limit its acceptance for the cacao producer. Then, it is necessary to seek other control methods and within them the effect of soil dissinfectans like Formaldhyde and Sodium Hypoclorite and others applied on the soil surface they can be good alternatives.
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