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Sustainable Management of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in the Biocontrol of Soil-Borne Plant Diseases

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Biocontrol Potential and its Exploitation in Sustainable Agriculture

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The management of crop diseases caused by root pathogens has become one of the challenging research areas in plant pathology. Increasing knowledge and concern about the environmental consequences of pesticide applications have aroused interest in alternative methods of plant protection. The roots of most plant species live in symbiosis with certain soil fungi by establishing what are known as mycorrhizae. The fungus biotrophically colonizes the root cortex and develops an extramatrical mycelium that helps plant to acquire mineral nutrients from soil (Harley and Smith, 1983). It has been recognised that mycorrhizal symbiosis plays a key role in nutrient cycling in the ecosystem and also protects plants against environmental and cultural stress (Barea and Jeffries, 1995). Most of the major plant families are able to form mycorrhiza naturally, the arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) associations being the most common mycorrhizal type involved in agricultural systems (Barea et al.,1993;Mukerji,1999;Singh et al.,2000).

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