[HTML][HTML] Sustainable management of diseases and pests in crops by vermicompost and vermicompost tea. A review

AM Yatoo, MN Ali, ZA Baba, B Hassan - Agronomy for Sustainable …, 2021 - Springer
The intensive use of inorganic fertilizers and pesticides in the agricultural field has globally
destroyed soil fertility, killed beneficial microorganisms, and also decreased natural …

[HTML][HTML] Biocontrol by Fusarium oxysporum Using Endophyte-Mediated Resistance

FJ De Lamo, FLW Takken - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Interactions between plants and the root-colonizing fungus Fusarium oxysporum (Fo) can be
neutral, beneficial, or detrimental for the host. Fo is infamous for its ability to cause wilt, root …

Compost: its role, mechanism and impact on reducing soil-borne plant diseases

CM Mehta, U Palni, IH Franke-Whittle, AK Sharma - Waste management, 2014 - Elsevier
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 …

Disease-suppressive compost enhances natural soil suppressiveness against soil-borne plant pathogens: A critical review

U De Corato - Rhizosphere, 2020 - Elsevier
Plant diseases caused by soil-borne pathogens have been recognized as a critical factor
worldwide for plant health and productivity overall in intensive cropping systems …

Microbiological control of soil‐borne phytopathogenic fungi with special emphasis on wilt‐inducing Fusarium oxysporum

C Alabouvette, C Olivain, Q Migheli… - New …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Plant diseases induced by soil‐borne plant pathogens are among the most difficult to
control. In the absence of effective chemical control methods, there is renewed interest in …

[HTML][HTML] Microbial consortia for plant protection against diseases: more than the sum of its parts

T Maciag, E Kozieł, P Rusin, K Otulak-Kozieł… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Biological plant protection presents a promising and exciting alternative to chemical
methods for safeguarding plants against the increasing threats posed by plant diseases …

[HTML][HTML] Desirable traits of a good biocontrol agent against Verticillium wilt

S Deketelaere, L Tyvaert, SC França… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The soil-borne fungus Verticillium causes serious vascular disease in a wide variety of
annual crops and woody perennials. Verticillium wilt is notoriously difficult to control by …

Diversity and biocontrol potential of endophytic fungi in Brassica napus

Q Zhang, J Zhang, L Yang, L Zhang, D Jiang, W Chen… - Biological control, 2014 - Elsevier
This study was conducted to isolate endophytic fungi from oilseed rape (Brassica napus), to
identify the fungal endophytes based on morphology and ITS (ITS1-5.8 S rDNA-ITS2) …

Insights on the Evolution of Mycoparasitism from the Genome of Clonostachys rosea

M Karlsson, MB Durling, J Choi… - Genome biology and …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Clonostachys rosea is a mycoparasitic fungus that can control several important plant
diseases. Here, we report on the genome sequencing of C. rosea and a comparative …

Suppressive composts: microbial ecology links between abiotic environments and healthy plants

Y Hadar, KK Papadopoulou - Annual review of phytopathology, 2012 - annualreviews.org
Suppressive compost provides an environment in which plant disease development is
reduced, even in the presence of a pathogen and a susceptible host. Despite the numerous …