Abstract:The efficacies of dimethomorph and azoxystrobin against Phytophthora capsici were evaluated in this paper. The results in vitro indicated dimethomorph inhibited different stages in the life cycle of Phytophthora capsici including mycelial growth, sporangium production, zoospore release with the EC50 values of 0.68, 0.21 and 4.92μg/mL respectively. The EC50 values of dimethomorph are 34.7, 30.4 and 4.6 times those value of azoxystrobin respectively. To examine the effects of the two fungicides on the permeability of the cell membrane, the effects of the two fungicides on electrolyte leakage of mycelia cell suspension were studied. The conductivity of mycelia suspension treated with dimethomorph and azoxystrobin were both increased at 25μg/mL and 50μg/mL respectively. The changes of conductivity caused by the two fungicides were both subtle at 12.5μg/mL. Mycelial respiration rate test results showed that azoxystrobin had inhibition the approaches of tricarboxylic acid cycle (TCA) and the dimethomorph had an effect on the approaches of TCA and hexosemonophosphate (HMP). Bioassay in vivo showed that dimethomorph and azoxystrobin had similar protection effect against P.capsici with the same concentration, while dimethomorph had a better curative effect against P.capsici than azoxystrobin.