Soil-borne plant pathogens are responsible for causing many crop plant diseases, resulting
in significant economic losses. Compost application to agricultural fields is an excellent …

Soil suppressiveness to soil-borne diseases relies mainly on microbial interactions. Some of
them, eg. antibiosis and mycoparasitism, are directly deleterious to pathogenic fungi; others …

Bacteriophages have been proposed as an alternative to pesticides to kill bacterial
pathogens of crops. However, the efficacy of phage biocontrol is variable and poorly …

Disease-suppressive soils are soils in which specific soil-borne plant pathogens cause only
limited disease although the pathogen and susceptible host plants are both present …

Vermifiltration is an economically affordable and environmentally sustainable technology for
treatment of wastewater. However, the long-term effective performance and field scale …

The expression of the enzyme 1-aminocylopropane-1-carboxylate (ACC) deaminase, and
the consequent modulation of plant ACC and ethylene concentrations, is one of the most …

Root‐associated microbes are critical for plant growth and nutrient acquisition. However,
scant information exists on optimizing communities of beneficial root‐associated microbes or …

Reductive soil disinfestation (RSD) and chemical soil disinfestation (CSD) are two common
agricultural strategies for the elimination of soil-borne pathogens. However, the differences …

Fusarium species are cosmopolitan soil phytopathogens from the division Ascomycota,
which produce mycotoxins and cause significant economic losses of crop plants. However …

High levels of heavy metals in soil pose considerable threats to the ecosystem. The in situ
remediation technology is obtaining increasing global concerns as a sustainable …