Phytophthora capsici , 100 Years Later: Research Mile Markers from 1922 to 2022

In 1922, was described by Leon Hatching Leonian as a new pathogen infecting pepper ( ), with disease symptoms of root rot, stem and fruit blight, seed rot, and plant wilting and death. Extensive research has been conducted on over the last 100 years. This review succinctly describes the salient mile markers of research on with current perspectives on the pathogen's distribution, economic importance, epidemiology, genetics and genomics, fungicide resistance, host susceptibility, pathogenicity mechanisms, and management.