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Modes of action associated with microbially induced in planta suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes

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This article discusses the extensive research that has been conducted on the use of mutualistic bacterial and fungal endophytes for the biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes. This review deals in particular with the modes of action of multitrophic interactions involving endophytic bacteria or fungi that have biological control activity towards the root-knot nematode, Meloidogyne incognita, and the potato cyst nematode, Globodera pallida, on tomato or potato. The bacterial and fungal endophytes discussed here are those that: (1) have the ability to colonise the endorhiza at some point in their life-cycle; (2) can grow saprophytically in the soil or in the rhizosphere; and (3) have plant health promoting activity and antagonistic activity towards sedentary plant-parasitic nematodes.

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Sikora, R.A., Schäfer, K. & Dababat, A.A. Modes of action associated with microbially induced in planta suppression of plant-parasitic nematodes. Australasian Plant Pathology 36, 124–134 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1071/AP07008

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