Bacillus species as versatile weapons for plant pathogens: a review

By Jamil Shafi, Hui Tian, M. Ji. 2017

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ABSTRACT Plant pathogens are the main threat for profitable agricultural productivity. Currently, chemical-based pesticides are thought to be an effective and reliable agricultural management measure for controlling pests. Chemical pesticides are highly effective and convenient to use but they are a potential threat for the environment and all kinds of life on earth. Therefore, the use of biological control agents for the management of plant pathogens is considered as a safer and sustainable strategy for safe and profitable agricultural productivity. Bacillus-based biocontrol agents play a fundamental role in the field of biopesticides. Many Bacillus species have proved to be effective against a broad range of plant pathogens. They have been reported as plant growth promoter, systemic resistance inducer, and used for production of a broad range of antimicrobial compounds (lipopeptides, antibiotics and enzymes) and competitors for growth factors (space and nutrients) with other pathogenic microorganisms through colonization. The aim of this article is to present the biocontrol potential of Bacillus species in relation with their antagonizing attributes against plant pathogens. These attributes include production of lipopeptides, antibiotics and enzymes as well as plant growth promotion and systemic induced resistance.

Subfields: Molecular Biology, Plant Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Heavy metal remediation and resistance mechanism of Aeromonas, Bacillus, and Pseudomonas: A review (2020, background): “Such bacteria are termed plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) (Shafi et al., 2017).”
• Biological Control of Plant Pathogens: A Global Perspective (2022, background): “This action requires a signalization of the pathway of phytohormones, phytoalexins, and defense enzymes such as phenylalanine ammonia-lyase, chitinase, PR-proteins, and phenolic compounds (Figure 3) [74,133].”
• Overview of the Antimicrobial Compounds Produced by Members of the Bacillus subtilis Group (2019, background): “subtilis group have indeed been identified as capable to produce lytic enzymes with biocontrol potential (Herrera-Estrella and Chet, 1999; Kumar et al., 2012; Shafi et al., 2017).”