Abstract:Leaf blotch is the major disease led to severe defoliation in early summer in apple orchard. To reveal the control effect of propineb to Marssonina coronaria, the dry weight of mycelia from liquid culture, fruit body production and rate of conidia germination were used as parameters to evaluate the fungitoxicity in vitro; field disease control efficacy was estimated by survey in different time after spray and effect of propineb on leaf zinc content was evaluated by atomic absorption spectrometry. The fungitoxicity test in the laboratory showed that propineb exhibited stronger inhibition on conidial germination and acervuli formation, than on mycelial growth depending on EC50 of each assay 1.07, 1.70 and 6.76μg·mL-1, respectively. The field control trial in 2005 and 2006 revealed that the good control of Marssonina leaf blotch was achieved by spraying propineb at 875 mg·L-1 with more than 90% control efficacy, as good as mancozeb at 1000mg·L-1. Spray at different time and different frequencies showed that apply propineb two to three times from last ten days of April to early ten days of June in a growing season, the period from post-anthesis to young fruit stage, gave more than 90% control efficacy in Guanzhong region of Shaanxi Province. In addition, propineb remarkably increased the leaf zinc content from 20.9mg·kg-1 to 75mg·kg-1 in apple leaves in more than 70 d after 2 time applications.