2024, Vol. 4, Issue 1, Part A
Involvement of botanicals in crop diseases management
Author(s): Senthilmurugan Palanisamy
Abstract: Chemical fungicides are being used many years ago for the management of crop losses coursed by pathogens. However, these chemicals are hazardous to man and the environment and not all farmers can afford to buy. To mitigate these problems, attention of researchers focused on the identification and characterization of botanicals from many plant species. Currently, several types of researches have been carried out in vitro and in vivo to evaluate the efficacy of plant extracts and oils against plant pathogens and proved effective. These botanicals exhibit fungicidal potentials in nature, by production of secondary metabolites from their different parts viz., leaf, flower, root and stem, widely used in the form of water extracts of leaves or seeds and oil, owing to its effects as pesticide against crop diseases. However, this information on plants antagonistic to crop diseases are revealing to the farmers and entrepreneurs, leaving valuable sources for commercial products undiscovered. Hence, a greater understanding of these alternative fungicides may, therefore, be helpful for practicing sustainable agriculture, particularly considering that they are less hazardous, economically feasible, easily adoptable and could be used to manage pathogens in both fields and stores (postharvest). This review, summarizes previous studies on the efficacy of botanicals from different plant species, for the management of crop diseases with emphasis on insect pests, nematodes, fungal and bacterial diseases.
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Senthilmurugan Palanisamy. Involvement of botanicals in crop diseases management. Int J Plant Pathol Microbiol 2024;4(1):35-40.