绿色植物是人类赖以生存的物质基础。土传病原真菌引起的植物病害是威胁植物健康的重要因素。作者课题组长期以 棉花-大丽轮枝菌为模式系统研究植物与土传病原真菌的互作分子机制，以期为该类病害的可持续控制奠定理论基础。文章 简单介绍植物土传真菌病害相关的基本概念及防控现状，同时系统介绍课题组近十年来在该领域从基础研究到应用基础及 成果转化等方面取得的系列研究成果，并对今后植物土传病害的防控进行展望。

Plants are the essential material basis for human survival. Plant diseases caused by soilborne pathogens are the most limiting factor and threat to plant health. In order to lay a theoretical foundation for the sustainable control of soilborne fungal disease, our research group has been studying the interaction between cotton and Verticillium dahliae, the most notorious soilborne pathogenic fungus causing wilt disease, and exploited cotton-V. dahliae as a model system to study the molecular mechanism of plant-soilborne fungus interaction. In this review, we brief introduce the basic concepts and the status on prevention of plant soilborne fungal diseases. We also summarize our progress in studying cotton-V. dahliae interaction from basic research to application and transformation in the last decade, and envisage prospect in the future work on plant protection against soilborne disease.