Soil borne pathogen

A soil borne pathogen is a disease-causing agent which lives both in soil and in a plant host, and which will tend to infect undiseased plants which are grown in that soil.^[1] Common soil borne pathogens include Fusarium,^[1] Pythium,^[1][2] Rhizoctonia,^[1] Phytophthora,^[1] Verticillium,^[1] Rhizopus,^[2] Thielaviopsis,^[2] and nematodes^[1] including Meloidogyne.^[3][4]