Not available – first paragraph follows: In the overall scheme of things in agriculture, cabbage yellows is not a particularly damaging disease. The pathogen, however — Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. conglutinans, referred to as “Foe” — belongs to a group of troublesome, very damaging, and economically important fungi that cause the Fusarium wilt diseases. The main species, F. oxysporum, has varieties (called “forma species”) that lead to heavy losses in crop plants worldwide, including cotton, tomato, banana, cucurbits, crucifers, and many ornamental crops.