Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus-based products: status and future perspective in agriculture
Ensuring global food security requires innovative tools for crop pest/diseases management. Beneficial microorganisms can protect plants from pests, enhancing disease resistance, and abiotic stress tolerance. Entomopathogenic bacteria are beneficial microorganisms with an obligate or facultative action against arthropods. Entomopathogenic bacteria perform on different host ranges and are well-known biological control agents. Their direct agricultural application requires a fine-tuned adjustment for several biotic and abiotic factors and a more profound knowledge of their infective mechanisms. The search for new natural products generated by entomopathogenic bacteria is an alternative for producing new antibiotic compounds with the potential for plant protection. The discovery and characterization of these new natural products can significantly contribute to advances in novel biotools that can cope with the urgent need for alternatives for farmers. This chapter summarizes the forefront research in these new areas and discusses the array of agricultural crop benefits and potential scopes produced by Xenorhabdus and Photorhabdus entomopathogenic bacteria.
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| Format: | capítulo de libro biblioteca |
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Academic Press
2023
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| Subjects: | Beneficial microorganisms, Biopesticides, Crop protection, Photorhabdus, Xenorhabdus, |
| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/351400 |
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