**4.2 Resistant varieties**

The use of cultivars that are resistant to disease has always been one of the most effective and economical ways of managing diseases in many crops, including mango. However, in mango, several studies have shown that most cultivars that are commercially available to farmers are susceptible to the disease. Nevertheless, some experiments in controlled environments have reported that there are some few genotypes with some considerable levels of resistance to the mango anthracnose disease (**Table 1**). These traits can be harnessed in future breeding intervention to development some potential cultivars with higher resistance to the disease [26].
