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MICROBIAL
BIOCONTROL
Submitted BY:
N.Harini
NA-2015-032
MICROBIAL BIOCONTROL
BIOCONTROL:
The practice or process by which an
undesirable organism is controlled by
means of another (beneficial)
organism.
MICROBIAL BIOCONTROL:
Micro organisms and their products (toxins)
are employed by man for the control of
insects ,animals and plant pathogens
,weeds etc referred as microbial biocontrol.
MICROBIAL BIOCONTROL MAY INVOLVES
Parasitism
Antagonism (Ammensalism)
Competition
Predation
PARASITISM
control ofPythiumandFusariumspecies,
either by comparing the effects of purified
pyoverdine with synthetic iron chelators or
through the use of pyoverdine minus
mutants
siderophore produced by
manyPseudomonas species
PREDATION
P.fluorescens
TRICHODERMA VIRIDAE : AGAINST ROOT ROT,STEM ROT WILT, LEAD SPOT,
EARLY& LATE BLIGHTS, TIKKA DISEASES, DOWNY MILDEWS ETC OF DIFFERENT
CROP PLANTS.
Root rot Stem rot
Tikka disease Downy mildew