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Biological Control of Plant Diseases: Opportunities and Limitations

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Plant Microbiome Paradigm

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Plant diseases are important challenge to agriculture worldwide. Annually millions of tons of agricultural produce are lost due to the actions of plants pathogens. Past historical evidences are available showing the great mass migration and death of humans caused by the disease outbreak. Currently, several measures have been adopted to control the loss of crop productivity caused by fungal diseases. Physical and chemical approaches have gained huge success in managing the plant diseases, but being costly and toxic to natural environment in most of the cases, these are not preferred by the farmers. Moreover, the use of agrochemicals to control the plant pathogens has evoked the phenomenon of pest resistance and thus aggravating the seriousness of plant diseases and loss of crop productivity. To minimize the risks of synthetic chemicals, biological control measures have been introduced to control the fast multiplication of several plant diseases; however, under natural environmental conditions, their efficiency is very much affected. Plant systems have evolved several mechanisms to deal with the encountered pathogens. Enhancing the plant immunity against diseases caused by important plant pathogens by identifying and introducing the genes promoting the diseases resistance may serve as a good option in near future to control the plant disease for human welfare.

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Authors are thankful to University Grants Commission (UGC) New Delhi, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) New Delhi, Head, CAS in Botany, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, DST-PURSE, and ISLS, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India for providing necessary facilities.

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Singh, A. et al. (2020). Biological Control of Plant Diseases: Opportunities and Limitations. In: Varma, A., Tripathi, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Plant Microbiome Paradigm. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50395-6_7

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