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Entomopathogenic Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection: Future Perspectives

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Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture

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Abstract

Food security for a growing world population is a challenging task under limited agriculture land and increasing incidences of pest infestation. In the pursuit of this challenging task, modern agriculture has seen a major escalation in the use of agrochemicals like chemical pesticides and fertilizer by the farmers. Repeated application of pesticides to agricultural soil not only leads to the development of pesticide-resistant pests but also imposes their toxicity in environmental systems and human health. Annually, ~40% of global crop loss occurs due to the inability of farmers in managing the pest attack and due to the resistance shown by these pests against different pesticides. Also, maintaining the sustainability of agroecosystems during agricultural production has become an important issue worldwide. Therefore, it is imperative to identify and develop biopesticides, which can provide protection to crops against a broad range of pests and insects’ infestations as well as be cost-effective and environmentally friendly at the same time. In the development of biocontrol agents (BAC), entomopathogenic microorganism (EPM) plays an important role as ecofriendly biopesticides and serves as an alternative to synthetic pesticides.

EPMs consist of bacteria, fungi, nematodes, and Viruses, which can facilitate in developing a potential biological technology to suppress the pests and promote sustainable agriculture. In this chapter, we focus on the important roles and application of entomopathogenic microorganism and their types for pest and insect control.

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The authors are thankful to Director, ICAR-DOGR, Pune for providing necessary facilities and timely guidance in improving the manuscript. Also express their heartfelt gratitude to Head (Dept. of ESD) and Director of Institute of Environment & Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University, for providing the necessary facilities during research and constant encouragement. Also, special thanks to the reviewers for their valuable suggestions to improve the manuscript.

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Soumia, P.S., Krishna, R., Jaiswal, D.K., Verma, J.P., Yadav, J., Singh, M. (2021). Entomopathogenic Microbes for Sustainable Crop Protection: Future Perspectives. In: Yadav, A.N., Singh, J., Singh, C., Yadav, N. (eds) Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture . Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6949-4_19

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