This invention addresses the problem of providing an agent for controlling disease induced in a plant by a bacterium selected from the genus Rhizoctonia, the genus Fusarium, the genus Pythium, the genus Microdochium, the genus Tilletia, the genus Ustilago, the genus Streptomyces, the genus Erwinia, and the genus Aphanomyces, the plant being selected from cruciferous plants, beans, corn, wheat, potatoes, and sugar beets. In the present invention, this disease can be controlled by treating seeds, seedlings, or soil of these plants using a fungus belonging to the genus Talaromyces.