Abstract:In order to explore the fitness of metalaxyl-resistant (R) isolates of Phytophthora capsici, the main biological characters of the field metalaxyl-resistant isolates and laboratory-induced metalaxyl-resistant isolates of P.capsici were studied with the wild-type metalaxyl-sensitive (S) isolates as control. The results showed that the zoosporangium production by all isolates was 9.6×103-13.0×103/mL, the zoosporangium releasing ratio was 61.3% -68.4%, the germination ratio of the zoosporangia was 35.3% -42.1%, the average mycelial growth rate was 10.28-11.55mm/d, and the hydrolysis indices were 0.18-0.95. Both metalaxyl-sensitive and metalaxyl-resistant isolates didn‘t grow on CA with 100μg/mL malachite green, however, all the isolates infected the fruits of pepper, tomato, pumpkin, summer squash and eggplant, and the average diameter of lesions were 34.11, 18.47, 30.19, 37.78 and 32.73mm, respectively. The main biological characters had no significant differences between the metalaxyl-resistant and metalaxyl-sensitive isolates. This suggested that metalaxyl resistance mutation did not alter the main biological characters of P.capsici, and there might be at high risk of resistance to metalaxyl in P.capsici.