In recent years, the halo blight spreaded in a large area in the main producing areas of common bean in China, resulting in yield reductions or even crop failures with no yield at all. It is one of the main factors that endanger the production of common bean in China. However, the common bean germplasm resources against the halo blight are in an unclear state, with very few related genetic studies, and very scarce disease resistant varieties available for production. Therefore, this paper reviews studies of the pathogenic mechanism, the identification methods, the control measures, the resistance inheritance, and the selection of disease-resistant germplasm resources of common bean with anti-pathogen of halo blight, and puts forward suggestions for the urgent research directions of halo blight, to promote the research and development of genetic breeding with resistance to halo blight of common bean in China.

common bean  /  halo blight  /  physiological strain  /  genetic resistance