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Recent Trends in Plant- and Microbe-Based Biopesticide for Sustainable Crop Production and Environmental Security

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The impact of increasing human population, rising food demand, and adverse effects of climate change, viz., changing rainfall pattern, rising temperature, biotic-abiotic stresses, etc., has tremendously affected global food security. In addition, increased anthropogenic inputs from urbanization, industrialization, as well as outrageous use of chemical fertilizers and pesticides have posed a severe threat to the sustainability of the agroecosystems. For many decades, the use of chemical pesticides against insect and microbial pests has become an integrative part of agriculture and contributed significantly to the crop improvement. But, their long-term persistence, cytotoxicity, and microbial resistance have resulted negative impact on the biosphere, thus creating pollution of diverse ecosystems, land degradation, and biodiversity losses. For the last two decades, alternate pest management strategies have become the new avenues for controlling pest and diseases in a greener, safer, and eco-friendly manner. The use of biological control agents (termed as biocides) such as both microbe- and plant-based formulations has been known to be the major emerging tool in crop disease/pest management and appealing alternative to the chemical pesticide in sustainable agriculture. Biopesticides employ the use of naturally occurring substances, i.e., living organisms (natural enemies) or their products (phytochemicals, microbial products) or by-products (semiochemicals) that control pests by nontoxic mechanisms, with high targeted activity against causal agents (insects, fungi, weeds, viruses, nematodes, etc.), and nonpersistence in the environment. The use of biopesticide alone or in combination with agrochemicals has become the new tool in crop protection as a part of biointensive integrated pest management (IPM) strategies. Although biopesticides are slowly substituting the chemical pesticides with great promise, its use to the desired extent is lacking; hence insight on such biological agents is a prerequisite. In this chapter, we have summarized the sources of biopesticides, their plant protective mechanisms (mode of action), availability, and status in India, as well as some critical pros and cons of its use.

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  1. Agricultural and Food Engineering Department, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal, India

    Deepak Kumar Verma

  2. Food Research Department, School of Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Unidad Saltillo, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

    Karen Nathiely Ramírez Guzmán

  3. Department of Bioscience and Bioengineering, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Bombay, India

    Balaram Mohapatra

  4. College of Horticulture, Central Agricultural University, Bermiok, Sikkim, India

    Diganggana Talukdar

  5. Bioprocesses and Bioproducts Group and Nanobioscience Group, Food Research Department, School of Chemistry. Autonomous University of Coahuila, Saltillo Campus, Coahuila, Mexico

    Mónica L. Chávez-González

  6. School of Agriculture, Lovely Professional University, Phagwara, Punjab, India

    Vipul Kumar

  7. Department of Botany, Deen Dayal Upadhyay Gorakhpur University, Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, India

    Shikha Srivastava

  8. Gram Samriddhi Trust, Kendujhar, Odisha, India

    Vishal Singh

  9. Animal Husbandry Department, Faculty of Agriculture, University of Jember, Jember, East Java, Indonesia

    Roni Yulianto

  10. Department of Biotechnology, Valliammal College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

    S. Ezhil Malar

  11. Faculty of Science and Marine Environment, c/o Centre for Fundamental and Continuing Education, Universiti Malaysia Terengganu, Kuala Nerus, Terengganu, Malaysia

    Aziz Ahmad

  12. Faculty of Agro-Industrial Technology, Universitas Padjadjaran, Sumedang, West Java, Indonesia

    Gemilang Lara Utama

  13. Bioprocesses Research Group, Food Research Department, School of Chemistry, Universidad Autonoma de Coahuila, Unidad Saltillo, Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

    Cristobal Noe Aguilar

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Verma, D.K. et al. (2021). Recent Trends in Plant- and Microbe-Based Biopesticide for Sustainable Crop Production and Environmental Security. In: Prasad, R., Kumar, V., Singh, J., Upadhyaya, C.P. (eds) Recent Developments in Microbial Technologies. Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-4439-2_1

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