Feeding a rising population of currently 7.8 billion people globally requires efficient
agriculture, which is preferably sustainable. Today, farmers are largely dependent on …

Simple Summary Environmental conditions are subject to unprecedented changes due to
recent progressive anthropogenic activities on our planet. Plants, as the frontline of food …

More than one third of harvested fruit and vegetables are lost and do not reach the
customers mainly due to postharvest decay. During the last decade, several postharvest …

Durum wheat landraces have huge potential for the identification of genetic factors valuable
for improving resistance to biotic stresses. Tunisia is known as a hot spot for Septoria tritici …

A number of different types of induced resistance have been defined based on differences in
signalling pathways and spectra of effectiveness, including systemic acquired resistance …

Root‐colonizing non‐pathogenic bacteria can increase plant resistance to biotic and abiotic
stress factors. Bacterial inoculates have been applied as biofertilizers and can increase the …

Phytophthora infestans (Mont.) de Bary is one of the main pathogens in the agricultural
sector. The most affected are the Solanaceae species, with the potato (Solanum tuberosum) …

Plant diseases are still the main problem for the reduction in crop yield and a threat to global
food security. Additionally, excessive usage of chemical inputs such as pesticides and …

Biological control has received increasing interest in recent decades as one of the
alternatives to chemical pesticides in the field of plant disease control, especially after the …

The review analyses data on physiological and biochemical influence of rhizospheric and
endophytic plant growth promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) on induced the mechanisms of …