Unleashing the Biocontrol Potential of Compost-inhabiting and Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Plant Health
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Biocontrol, Compost Inhabiting Bacteria, Disease Suppression, PGPRAbstract
Microbial populations play a vital role in plant health, protecting them from pathogens and diseases. They boost the growing up plant by protecting it from different harmful microbes and diseases. Beneficial microorganisms in compost and rhizobacteria suppress diseases through mechanisms like competition, antibiotic production, parasitism, and induced resistance (ISR, SAR). Compost promotes the growth of crops particularly by controlling the diseases. They do this by the activities of the beneficial microorganisms reside in it and their competition dominance for energy. Other mechanisms of disease suppression are through production of antibiotic compounds, parasitism/ predation, activation of disease-resistant genes and through improving the defensive capacity of plant through. They perform as disease controlling agents and suppress the diseases by stimulating the beneficial symbiosis and protecting the plant by the degradation of harmful compounds in growth suppressing soil. Augmentation of rhizosphere with rhizobacteria, isolated from the same environment, provides better control of diseases because they are acclimatized in the proposed rhizospheric conditions. The disease suppression mechanism is same as that of compost inhabiting bacteria. PGPR and compost inhabiting bacteria must survive, colonized, ecologically fit and function in the specific environmental conditions to act as biocontrol agents. Varied microbes showed diverse antagonistic activity under different environmental conditions. Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) and compost-inhabiting bacteria can act as biocontrol agents, promoting sustainable plant health. The objective of this review is to critically evaluate the current understanding of these microorganisms, highlighting their potential and identifying future research avenues.
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