Abstract:Five hundred and forty-eight strains of Fusarium moniliforme causing rice bakanae disease were isolated and obtained, from 13 areas of Jiangsu Province, China. The resistance of these strains to three fungicides used for rice seed treatment and the competition of the resistant strains were studied. According to the discriminatory concentration in PSA amended with carbendazim of 10μg/mL (MIC), the mean ratio of carbendazim-resistant strains was 95.8% and the highly resistant ones (MIC>100μg/mL) accounted for 82.7%, in which EC50 values of a few strains were more than 1000μg/mL. The resistance to carbendazim was stable after these strains were 20 times transferred on carbendazim-free PSA. The sensitivity baseline of the pathogen to prochloraz was (0.00075±0.00003)μg/mL (EC50) and 0.85μg/mL (MIC) according to the frequency distribution of EC50 and MIC values of 30 wild isolates. Based on the discriminatory concentration in PSA amended with prochloraz of 3μg/mL (MIC), 8 strains resistant to prochloraz were found, with the average ratio of 1.5%. The resistance of these strains to prochloraz was high or moderate, with the resistance factor (EC50R/EC50S) of 103.1-126.2 fold and 24.6-95.0 fold, respectively. But the resistance to prochloraz decreased significantly after the strains were 5-20 times transferred. The sensitivity baseline of the pathogen to diisothiocyanatomethane was determined to be (1.265±0.014)μg/mL (EC50) and 3.13μg/mL (MIC) by the same method. No strains resistant to diisothiocyanatomethane were found according to the detection on the medium supplemented with 5μg/mL (MIC) of the fungicide. The result of inoculation with mixed conidia (1∶ 1) of resistant and sensitive strains showed that the carbendazim-resistant strains had stronger competition ability than the sensitive ones on rice plants, while the resistant strains to prochloraz had lower competition than the sensitive ones.