Botrytis cinerea, the causal agent of grey mould, greatly affects fruit, grapevine, vegetable
and ornamental crops production. It is a common causal agent of diseases in plants
grown in protected areas, as well as fruit decay during storage and transport. The fungus
invades almost all parts of the plant in all developmental stages, and the symptoms are
usually described as grey mould, grey mildew, brown rot and seedling blight. The paper
reviews the current knowledge on control possibilities of this necrotrophic pathogen. The
attention is particularly paid to the mode of action of novel fungicides and to the problem
of resistance. It is pointed out that by limiting the number of treatments in the growing
season, avoiding the use of only one fungicide with a high risk for resistance development,
appropriate application rate and timing, using mixtures of pesticides with different modes
of action, as well as by alternative use of pesticides from different resistance groups, a longterm
preservation of pesticide efficacy is provided.Botrytis cinerea, prouzrokovač sive truleži, značajno ugrožava proizvodnju voća, grožđa,
povrća i ukrasnog bilja. Često izaziva bolesti biljaka gajenih u zaštićenom prostoru, kao i trulež
plodova tokom skladištenja i transporta. Gljiva parazitira skoro sve delove biljke u svim fazama
razvoja, a simptomi se najčešće opisuju kao siva trulež, siva plesan, palež, mrka trulež, a
zapaženo je i poleganje klijanaca. U radu je dat pregled dosadašnjih saznanja o mogućnostima
suzbijanja ovog nekrotrofnog patogena. Posebna pažnja je posvećena mehanizmu delovanja
fungicida novije generacije kao i problemu rezistentnosti. Istaknuto je da se ograničenjem
broja tretiranja u toku jedne vegetacije, izbegavanjem upotrebe samo jednog fungicida visokog
rizika za razvoj rezistentnosti, odgovarajućom dozom i vremenom primene, upotrebom
mešavina pesticida različitog mehanizma delovanja kao i alternativnom primenom pesticida
iz različitih rezistentnih grupa omogućuje dugotrajno očuvanje efikasnosti pesticida