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Biological options for crop health (Nutrition, pest and disease) management-sanguine to sustainable agriculture

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Title Biological options for crop health (Nutrition, pest and disease) management-sanguine to sustainable agriculture
 
Creator Gopalakrishnan, S
Ranga Rao, G V
Humayun, P
Alekhya, G
Vidya, M S
Simi, J
Srinivas, V
Ratna Kumari, B
Vijayabharathi, R
Seema, M
Singh, A
Rupela, O P
 
Subject Plant Pathology
 
Description Interest in biological control of plant insect pests and pathogens has been stimulated in recent years by trends in agriculture towards greater sustainability and public concern about the use of hazardous pesticides. Microorganisms have the capability to synthesize many different biologically active secondary metabolites such as antibiotics, herbicides, pesticides, antiparasitic
and enzymes like cellulase, chitinase and xylanase. Microbial collection at ICRISAT, Patancheru, India has over 2000 accessions of bacteria and actinomycetes isolated from various sources and/or niches of composts, rhizosphere and rhizoplane soil samples of sorghum and rice. These
accessions possess at least one of six agriculturally beneficial traits studied viz. phosphate solublization, siderophore production, cellulose degradation, nitrogen fixation, antagonism to disease causing fungi and fluorescent Pseudomonas. In addition to that ICRISAT has also identified 28 entomopathogenic bacteria and actinomycetes capable of managing the most
 
Publisher Studium Press LLC
 
Contributor Singh, D P
Singh, H B
 
Date 2014
 
Type Book Section
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Language en
 
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Identifier http://oar.icrisat.org/8316/1/Book%20Ch-14.pdf
Gopalakrishnan, S and Ranga Rao, G V and Humayun, P and Alekhya, G and Vidya, M S and Simi, J and Srinivas, V and Ratna Kumari, B and Vijayabharathi, R and Seema, M and Singh, A and Rupela, O P (2014) Biological options for crop health (Nutrition, pest and disease) management-sanguine to sustainable agriculture. In: Trends in Soil Microbial Ecology. Studium Press LLC, New Delhi, pp. 321-336. ISBN 1-626990-36-0