Chocolate spot incited by Botrytis fabae is a serious faba bean disease of worldwide
distribution. The increasing interest in sustainable tools for disease control, together with the
lack of sufficient levels of genetic resistance triggered our interest in the use of intercropping
as a tool for the management of this disease. The effect of intercropping on chocolate spot
severity was studied in field experiments performed in Egypt, the Palestinian Territories,
Spain and Tunisia, in which a susceptible faba bean cultivar was grown as a monocrop or …