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Role of Metagenomics in Plant Disease Management

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Metagenomics employs present-day genomics mechanization to microbial communities in their innate habitats, omitting the obligation of culturing. Assembly of metagenomics sequence components is an arduous step, which involves quality check, assembly, binning, mapping, re-assembly, gene annotation and visualization. Numerous metagenomics scrutiny conduits along with visualization means are being refined from time to time to aid aforementioned process. This chapter furnishes a compendium of metagenomics applications in crop improvement via understanding and mitigating plant diseases through their appropriate management and control. Here, the role of metagenomics for plant disease management is illustrated with suitable examples for understanding microbial systems and microbiomes, plant-microbial interactions, disease diagnostics and phytopathology studies. Also, applications of metagenomics in isolation of novel microbial species for disease control, production of protective compounds for exogenous application and plant breeding for disease resistance and for production of disease-resistant genetically modified crops are elaborated. The chapter will be efficacious for students and researchers involved in plant stress and genomic studies and also to the coterie of scientists who have discerned the potentiality of metagenomics and are traversing the strategies involved.

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Taunk, J., Goutam, U. (2021). Role of Metagenomics in Plant Disease Management. 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_9

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