ABSTRACT
The cotton crop (Gossypium spp) is an important industry sector of the economy of agriculture and leads as a cash crop that provides income to farmers and industrialists. The etiology estimates the economic impact of diseases, which helps to develop management strategies. The strategies which contribute to control by chemical control, sowing disease-free seed and resistant varieties, employing crop rotation, and removing infected plant debris along with suitable practices should be part of an integrated disease management strategy. Fusarium wilt is common disease of cotton crop causing significant crop loss. The fungus is free living and persist in soil as chlamydospores and in association with the roots of cotton as well as on the roots of weeds. Verticillium wilt pathogens can grow inside the vascular system, but these fungi grow outside the vascular tissues in the advanced stage of infection.
