What is it about?
Like human beings, plants get disease. While lack of nutrients, lack of sun light, strong sun light and high acidity or alkalinity of soil affect plant growth, infection of plants by plant pathogenic bacteria, fungi and viruses cause significant damage to plants. For those plant pathogens that invade the areal parts of the plant, spraying cidal agrochemicals could help healing the crop. however, for pathogens infecting the crop from inside the soil, other method should be sought. Fungal crop pathogens such as Fusarium species inhabit and persist in the cultivating soil for decades continuously challenging crop productivity. Such pathogens can be controlled by developing other natural soil inhabiting microorganisms that are friendly to the crop but are anti for the plant pathogenic microbe. This research finding presented a microorganism (Trichoderma species) that effectively controlled the growth of soil inhabiting plant pathogen, Fusarium species in vitro.
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Why is it important?
The use of toxic agro-chemicals on agricultural lands is environmentally unsafe and damaging to the soil ecosystem. The use of alternative ecofriendly crop disease management system is a timely demand. In this regard, development of biological control agents such as the Fungus Trichoderma species that inhibit the growth and prolifration of soil borne crop pathogens is very promising.
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The visibility of this publication is very important in that it shows there is a new way of protecting crops from soil borne plant diseases. That is the use of microorganisms that are friendly with the crop but are natural enemies for the pathogenic one.
Mr. Tsegaye Mekuria Ayele
Debre Berhan University
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This page is a summary of: Isolation, Identification and In Vitro Test for the Biocontrol Potential of Trichoderma viride on Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. Lycopersici, The Open Agriculture Journal, February 2021, Bentham Science Publishers,
DOI: 10.2174/1874331502115010010.
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