Concepts in Biological Control of Plant Diseases

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To suppress the activities and populations of one or more plant pathogens, introduced or native living creatures that are not disease-resistant host plants are used as biological controls. Due to their exceptional capacity to coexist in the ecosystem and lessen the severity of diseases, microorganisms have attracted attention for managing diseases. To help you create a sustainable environment that doesn't rely on dangerous and unhealthy agrochemicals, Biological Control of Plant Diseases delivers the most recent scientific findings on disease management. Biological control is the prevention of disease development by a pathogen by administering biological agents to a host animal or plant. The biocontrol agents for plant diseases are often isolated bacterial or fungal strains from the endosphere or rhizosphere. There is renewed interest in using bacterial viruses to manage plant diseases since viruses can also be utilized as biocontrol agents. Diverse parts of biological control of fungal plant diseases have advanced significantly, but more research and development are still required in this field to address the issues that are now present fully. More research studies on some less developed aspects of biocontrol, such as the creation of novel formulations, comprehension of the effects of environmental factors on biocontrol agents, mass production of biocontrol microorganisms, and the application of biotechnology and nanotechnology in the improvement of biocontrol mechanisms and strategies, are imperative if we are to have more efficient biological control strategies in the future. Students, professors, researchers, botanists, plant pathologists, and agriculturalists will all find the book useful and generally favorable.