The invention discloses a sterilizing composition. The effective components are Sedaxane and captan, the mass ratio of the both is 50:1-1:50. The composition has obvious synergism and is effective totreat diseases caused by rhizoctonia solani, puccinia horiana, pyrenophora graminea, ustilago esculenta, Tilletia, Erysiphe, pyrenophora teres, Septoria musiva, and Ramularia; the composition has special effect to seed-borne disease. The composition can be applied to treat seeds and spray stems and leaves, the effect duration lasts for 4-6 weeks; the composition can be applied to the disease prevention and treatment of cereal type crops; particularly, it is applied to the seed treatment for preventing wheat ustilago esculenta, wheat tilletia, wheat basal rot, sphacelotheca reiliana, corn stalkrot, corn gall smut and rice bakanae disease.