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Endophytic Actinomycetes: Biocontrol Agents and Growth Promoters

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Diverse endophytic microbes construct complex interactions with their living hosts. Some are mutually supportive and others parasitic, giving a large influence to plant health. Endophytic actinomycetes have attracted interest of microbiologists, agrochemists and pharmacologists as the promising producers of novel antibiotics, growth promoters, and lead compounds to develop new medicines and agrochemicals. Although the fruits of basic research concerning these organisms have not sufficiently been realized, it is important to review the present knowledge of the beneficial interactions of endophytic actinomycetes and their hosts for their potential use in crop management to help solve a possible worldwide starvation in the near future. This chapter focuses on the potential of endophytic actinomycetes as (a) biocontrol tools of plant diseases and (b) sources of plant growth promoters, as well as isolation techniques, diversity in vascular plants, in planta colonization and mode of entry into host plants.

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I am indebted to Professor Dallice Mills (Department of Genetics and Plant Pathology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA) and Emeritus Professor Hitoshi Kunoh (Mie University, Tsu, Japan) for assistance with English and their valuable suggestions. The work was partially supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) (17780034 and 20780033) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan to MS.

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Shimizu, M. (2011). Endophytic Actinomycetes: Biocontrol Agents and Growth Promoters. In: Maheshwari, D. (eds) Bacteria in Agrobiology: Plant Growth Responses. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-20332-9_10

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