Plant chitinases and their role in plant defense: A comprehensive review

B Vaghela, R Vashi, K Rajput, R Joshi - Enzyme and Microbial Technology, 2022 - Elsevier
Chitinases are present in diverse form of organisms from bacteria, fungi, insects, plants.
Plant chitinases are part of pathogenesis-related proteins. When plant (host) cells are under …

Plant-beneficial effects of Trichoderma and of its genes

R Hermosa, A Viterbo, I Chet, E Monte - Microbiology, 2012 - microbiologyresearch.org
Trichoderma (teleomorph Hypocrea) is a fungal genus found in many ecosystems.
Trichoderma spp. can reduce the severity of plant diseases by inhibiting plant pathogens in …

Plant defense against fungal pathogens by antagonistic fungi with Trichoderma in focus

M Adnan, W Islam, A Shabbir, KA Khan… - Microbial …, 2019 - Elsevier
Fungal diseases cause considerable damage to the economically important crops
worldwide thus posing continuous threat to global food security. Management of these …

Agroforestry—The next step in sustainable and resilient agriculture

MH Wilson, ST Lovell - Sustainability, 2016 - mdpi.com
Agriculture faces the unprecedented task of feeding a world population of 9 billion people by
2050 while simultaneously avoiding harmful environmental and social effects. One effort to …

Bioprospecting and antifungal potential of chitinolytic microorganisms

V Gohel, A Singh, M Vimal, P Ashwini… - African Journal of …, 2006 - ajol.info
Fungal plant diseases are one of the major concerns to agricultural food production world
wide. Soil borne pathogenic fungi such as Pythium, Fusarium, Rhizoctonia and Phytopthora …

Trichoderma for climate resilient agriculture

PL Kashyap, P Rai, AK Srivastava, S Kumar - World Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of the twenty-first century for sustainable
agricultural production. Several reports highlighted the need for better agricultural practices …

Journey of Trichoderma from Pilot Scale to Mass Production: A Review

V Kumar, B Koul, P Taak, D Yadav, M Song - Agriculture, 2023 - mdpi.com
Trichoderma spp. has the ability to inhibit fungal plant pathogens through several
mechanisms like the production of hydrolytic enzymes, mycoparasitism, coiling, and …

[BOOK][B] Sustainable agriculture

E Lichtfouse, M Navarrete, P Debaeke, S Véronique… - 2009 - Springer
Biocontrol is an ecological method of controlling pests such as insects, mites, weeds and
plant diseases using other organisms. 1 This practice has been used for centuries, and the …

Overexpression of a chitinase gene in transgenic peanut confers enhanced resistance to major soil borne and foliar fungal pathogens

K Prasad, P Bhatnagar-Mathur, F Waliyar… - Journal of Plant …, 2013 - Springer
A chitinase gene from rice (Rchit) was introduced into three varieties of peanut through
Agrobacterium-mediated genetic transformation resulting in 30 transgenic events harboring …

Resistance against various fungal pathogens and reniform nematode in transgenic cotton plants expressing Arabidopsis NPR1

V Parkhi, V Kumar, LAM Campbell, AA Bell, J Shah… - Transgenic …, 2010 - Springer
Cotton is an economically important crop worldwide that suffers severe losses due to a wide
range of fungal/bacterial pathogens and nematodes. Given its susceptibility to various …