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Fungi as Biological Control Agents

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Nowadays, use of a fungal biocontrol agent (BCA) is considered to be a rapidly developing natural phenomenon in research area with implications for plant yield and food production. Fungal biocontrol agents (BCAs) do not cause any harm to the environment, and they generally do not develop resistance in various types of insects, pests, weeds, and pathogens due to their complex mode of action. They have been proved to be an alternative against the undesirable use of chemical pesticides. The advantage of fungi to be used as biological control agents is that they need not be ingested by the insect hosts, but they can invade directly through the insect’s cuticle and control all insect pests including sucking insects, but in the case of viruses and bacteria, this is not possible. The present literature includes mechanisms of fungal biological control agents, advantages and limitations of BCAs, and list of commercially available BCAs against the insects, pests, weeds, nematodes, and plant pathogens.

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Savita, Sharma, A. (2019). Fungi as Biological Control Agents. In: Giri, B., Prasad, R., Wu, QS., Varma, A. (eds) Biofertilizers for Sustainable Agriculture and Environment . Soil Biology, vol 55. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18933-4_18

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