Biological Control Agents in Plant Disease Control

Disease Control in Crops: Biological and Environmentally-Friendly Approaches

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 27-61

  Whipps, John M ^a   McQuilken, Mark P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b SCOTTISH AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological control agents in plant disease control; Enhanced phytoalexin production; Increased levels of enzymes; Modes of action competition, antibiosis, plant growth promotion; Parasitism and associated production of extracellular lytic enzymes; Strengthening of epidermal and cortical walls and barrier deposition; TRIANUM G and TRIANUM P wettable granule and wettable powder formulations; Using hypovirulent isolates of fungal pathogens; UV mutants of Trichoderma virens deficient in antibiotic production or mycoparasitism

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTICS; ENZYMES;

ANTIBIOTIC PRODUCTION; BARRIER DEPOSITION; BIOLOGICAL CONTROL AGENT; EXTRACELLULAR; FUNGAL PATHOGEN; PLANT GROWTH PROMOTION; WETTABLE POWDERS;

DISEASE CONTROL;

EID: 78649372327     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444312157.ch3     Document Type: Chapter

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