The increasing demand of the agricultural produce can be attained by optimizing the
productivity potential and by minimizing the losses caused by notorious plant-parasitic …

Meloidogyne incognita, the root-knot nematode (RKN), a devastating plant parasitic
nematode, causes considerable damage to agricultural crops worldwide. As a sedentary …

Soybean is an important economic crop that is often adversely affected by infection in the
field with the soybean cyst nematode Heterodera glycines. Biological control is an eco …

Background Microbial cultures are extensively used as environment friendly ways for
biological control of parasitic pests, including the root-knot nematodes, alternative to the use …

The Tea rhizosphere microbial community harbor diverse plant growth promoting (PGP)
rhizobacteria and are relatively less explored. In our study, we isolated 23 distinct bacterial …

Background In the protected cultivation of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) crop, the
severity of root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, incidence is alarming nowadays. To …

Sweet basil (Ocimum basilicum), a highly valuable medicinal crop, is extremely susceptible
to Meloidogyne incognita infestation, leading to severe losses in yield and chemo …

Intermingled uninfected and root‐knot nematode‐infected tomato plants are commonly
observed under protected cultivation. To understand the role of rhizobacteria underlying the …

Tomato, a major vegetable widely used in Kenya faces a number of production challenges
some of them being diseases like late blight, early blight and bacterial wilt. Chemical …

Increasing global food demand necessitates the intensification of crop production in modern
agriculture, which entails the significant use of synthetic fertilizers to increase crop output …