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Recent Advancement in Fungal Biocontrol Agents

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Fungal biocontrol agents (FBCAs) are target specific, have a short generation time with a comparatively high reproductive rate, thus considered to be an emerging field of biocontrol research area. They have become a substitute for chemical pesticides because of their complex mechanism of action without developing resistance in pests, insects, weeds, and plant pathogens and causing any harm to the environment. FBCAs provide protection against diseases using different biocontrol processes like antibiosis, mycoparasitism, competition, and induced resistance etc. Extensive research work is underway to explore biological disease control mechanisms and develop new and effective fungal biological control agents (FBCAs). The modern biotechnological and genetic engineering tools with a combination of genomics, metabolomics, proteomics and transcriptomics in biocontrol mechanisms have helped a lot to identify new metabolites and metabolic pathways providing better timing, formulation and application of FBCAs. Further, myconanotechnology and microbial consortia are now key strategies, playing a main role in the improvement of current biological control practices for sustainable agriculture. Moreover, extracts and secondary metabolites of various fungi including AMF and rust fungi are also having a substantial contribution in bio-control processes of plant pathogens and will attract more attention in future studies. In this chapter, we will figure out different Fungal biocontrol agents against plant diseases, their modes of action and recent advanced methods that provide enhanced biocontrol potential against plant pathogens that may contribute in the achievement of long-term sustainability goals in agriculture sector.

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Afshan, NuS. (2023). Recent Advancement in Fungal Biocontrol Agents. In: Rashad, Y.M., Baka, Z.A.M., Moussa, T.A.A. (eds) Plant Mycobiome. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-28307-9_8

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