“…In 2006, charcoal rot ranked sixth among the most economically significant plant diseases for soy-producing countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, China, India, Paraguay, and the United States) (Wrather et al, 2010). In Paraguay, the disease was observed in all the 48 locations evaluated between April andAugust 2008 (Orrego-Fuente et al, 2009) and in 2017 and 2019, soybeans production areas with high populations of M. phaseolina were identified in the Department of Itapúa, Paraguay (Maidana-Ojeda et al, 2020). Some strategies proposed for the management of this disease are early planting, crop rotation, use of irrigation, seed treatment and fungicide applications, and biological control (Gupta et al, 2012).…”