The invention belongs to the field of detection of 
disease resistance of horticultural plants, and relates to a 
seedling stage identification method for cowpea wilt resistance. The method includes the steps of 
sprouting cowpea seeds, 
sowing, cultivating seedlings, separating and cultivating bacterial strains special for 
inoculation, preparing oxysporum 
spore suspension liquid, infecting 
pathogenic bacteria, surveying 
plant disease causes and the like. Cowpea seedlings are infected with oxysporum artificially with the method that 
seedling roots are infected with bacterium liquid, cowpea seeds are cultivated in 
seedling cultivating matrixes to grow two leaves and one 
bud, then the seedlings are pulled out from infection, the growth vigour and the size of the cowpea seedlings can be controlled easily, the cowpea seedlings can be pulled out easily, and consistency and reliability of identification results are guaranteed. The special indication bacterial strains, the appropriate 
infection time and the appropriate oxysporum 
spore suspension liquid concentration are adopted, the infection effect is good, and even 
inoculation and quick 
disease generation are achieved. By means of the method, the oxysporum infection only needs to be conducted on different plants with the consistent growth vigour after roots are damaged directly through natural friction, the method is easy and convenient to operate, quick in identification, reliable in result and particularly suitable for identifying the oxysporum disease resistance of cowpea cultivating materials in batches.