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Host Specificity in Microbe-Microbe Interactions

Author(s) -

Joseph W. Kloepper

Publication year - 1996

Publication title -

bioscience

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.761

H-Index - 209

eISSN - 1525-3244

pISSN - 0006-3568

DOI - 10.2307/1312874

Subject(s) - agrochemical , crop protection , biological pest control , sustainable agriculture , crop , microbiology and biotechnology , agriculture , biology , pesticide , microorganism , agronomy , bacteria , ecology , genetics

ventional monocultural crop systems often supported by high inputs of pesticides and fertilizers to sustainable agriculture. Although precise definitions of sustainable agriculture vary, one key aspect is a reduction in agrichemical inputs with a corresponding shift to alternative crop protection strategies, such as cultural practices, organic amendments, resistant or tolerant crop varieties, and biological control. Biological control of plant diseases may be accomplished by several different means (Cook and Baker 1983), including the use of introduced microbial biological control agents. Because most plant diseases are caused by pathogenic microorganisms, using a microbial biological control agent to control a plant pathogen involves microbe-microbe interac-

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