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Role of Endophytes in Plant Disease Management

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Sustainable agriculture and agri-food production can only be preserved for our next generation by protecting different natural resources. So a thrust interest has been developed to exploit internal colonisation of healthy plants that termed as endophytes to execute in a systemic way against plant disease management. The matter in this chapter is to have an impact on economic and environment by limiting substantial side effects of abiotic and biotic factors by immediately protecting them by living organisms, i.e. endophytes within the plant tissues. The future implication of combinations of endophyte with commercial pesticide both as seed and seedling treatment could have a synergistic effect against multiple disease resistance under changing climate scenario.

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Chakraborty, S., Debnath, D., Mahapatra, S., Das, S. (2021). Role of Endophytes in Plant Disease Management. In: Singh, K.P., Jahagirdar, S., Sarma, B.K. (eds) Emerging Trends in Plant Pathology . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6275-4_19

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