Pub Date : 2021-11-11DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.101115
Waleed Mohamed Hussain Abdulkhair
The potato crop is exposed to infection with many fungal diseases including late blight, caused by Phytophthora infestans. The control of late blight disease requires an integrated management approach represented in cultivation control, plant resistance, and fungicide control. The citrus plants are infected by Phytophthora nicotianae that is causing root rot disease in Egypt. Three species of Phytophthora responsible for infection of citrus plants; P. nicotianae, P. citrophthora, and P. palmivora. Other pathogens associate P. nicotianae and form complexes or coinfection that release different diseases for citrus plants such as gummosis, Phytophthora–Diaprepes complex (PDC), and Huanglongbing syndrome (HLBS).
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Pub Date : 2021-11-03DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99383
B. Oubaha, A. Ezzanad, Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo
Potato (Solanum tuberosum) as a food source and culinary ingredient varies is the fourth most produced noncereal crop in the world. Among multiple biotic stresses, late blight caused by Phytophthora infestans is the most destructive disease. Control of this pathogen is usually by the synthetic fungicides which have been fueled by the public concern about toxicity and environmental impact and development of pathogens resistance. Biological control agents (BCAs) seems the potentially alternative to these pesticides, biological disease control is now recognized and constitute an important tool in integrated pest management. BCAs strains should be able to protect the host plant from pathogens and fulfill the requirement for strong colonization. Bacteria such as Bacillus, Pseudomonas and Streptomyces and fungi such as Trichoderma and Penicillium were the most reported as a BCA against P. infestans using different direct antagonistic mode on the pathogen (via e.g. parasitism, antibiosis, or competition) or via exerting their biocontrol activity indirectly by induction in the plant of an induced systemic resistance to the pathogen. In this study, we present an overview and discussion of the use of beneficial microbes (bacteria and fungi) as novel BCAs for biocontrol of P. infestans.
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Pub Date : 2021-10-01DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99696
Hernando José Bolívar-Anillo, Victoria E. González-Rodríguez, Giovanna Reyes Reyes Almeida, Inmaculada Izquierdo-Bueno, Javier Moraga, M. Carbú, Jesús M. Cantoral, C. Garrido
The genus Phytophthora with more than 100 described species and 58 officially recognized, phylogenetically distributed in ten clades, are important pathogenic oomycete chromists that cause important diseases in agricultural crops, trees and forests worldwide. This genus is known as "The Plant Destroyer” which causes great economic losses with costs between 2 and 7 billion dollars per year in agricultural systems and unquantifiable losses in natural ecosystems. The host plants of the genus Phytophthora can vary from a wide range in some species to only one host, however, the host plants of the new species are still being determined and therefore the range continues to expand, that makes control exceedingly difficult. Plant damage can range from alterations in roots, fruits, trunks, stems, foliage and crown to invasive processes in highly susceptible species. Considering the wide range of hosts and organs that can be affected by Phytophthora, the use of endophytic microorganisms for the biocontrol of this phytopathogen can be an alternative to avoid losses of both crops and forests worldwide. Endophytes are microorganisms that live inside plant tissues without causing disease under any circumstances. The fact that endophytic microorganisms are able to colonize an ecological niche similar to that of some plant pathogens qualifies them as potential biocontrol agents. This chapter describes the endophytic bacteria and fungi isolated from different plant species that have shown antagonistic activity against different species of Phytophthora, as well as the metabolites isolated from these microorganisms that have shown fungicide activity and other biocontrol strategies (enzyme production, siderophores, substrate competition, among others) against Phytophthora.
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Pub Date : 2021-09-14DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99135
J. Adomako, S. Larbi-Koranteng, F. Kankam, Y. Danso, J. F. Asamoah, P. Oteng-Darko, Kennedy Agyeman, S. Yeboah, E. N. Tetteh, E. Danquah
Ghana’s agricultural economy is largely dominated by the crop subsector with much focus on the production of tree, arable and vegetable crops. Nevertheless, Phytophthora spp. are major threat to the production of these crops contributing significantly to yield reduction. In this review, the main focus will be to look at the threats the pathogen poses to production, economic importance of Phytophthora diseases, highlights some Phytophthora diseases with limited research in the country but have the potential of affecting crop production, management options and the prospect of developing and deploying biological control strategies considered environmentally friendlier and devoid of human health risks to reduce the effect of this pathogen on crop production as well as reducing the dependency on chemical control option.
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Pub Date : 2021-08-26DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.99130
B. Frimpong, Samuel Oteng Ampadu, A. Oppong, I. Nunoo, L. Brobbey
The success of the UN Sustainable Development Goals in reducing hunger and poverty is limited by crop losses. Globally, plant pests and diseases account for 40% yield losses which threatens food and nutrition security, livelihoods of citizenry and erode the resources of local and national economies. Phytophthora diseases are among the most important diseases in sub-Saharan Africa which result in severe socio-economic consequences. Roots and tubers and cash commodity crops are important staples and foreign exchange earner crops in Ghana which are significantly challenged by the incidence and severity of Phytophthora diseases. To ensure food availability, safeguard the local financial ecosystem and protect the environment, innovative and sound management practices are needed and this chapter reviews the different Phytophthora diseases on crops; more specifically with (cocoa and taro as case studies), the consequences and available management options that can be applied to manage the disease situation in Ghana.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-01DOI: 10.5772/INTECHOPEN.97767
Pooja Vajpayee, Kuldeep Kr. Yogi
Detection of agricultural plant pests is seen as one of the farmers’ problems. Automated Pest Detection Machine enables early detection of crop insects with advanced computer vision and image recognition. Innovative research in the field of agriculture has demonstrated a new direction by Internet of Things (IoT). IoT needs to be widely experienced at the early stage, so that it is widely used in different farming applications. It allows farmers increase their crop yield with reduced time and greater precision. For the past decade, climate change and precipitation have been unpredictable. Due to this, many Indian farmers are adopting smart methods for environment known as intelligent farming. Smart farming is an automated and IOT-based information technology (Internet of Things). In all wireless environments IOT is developing quickly and widely. The Internet of Things helps to monitor agricultural crops and thus quickly and effectively increase farmers’ income. This paper presents a literature review on IoT devices for recognizing and detecting insects in crop fields. Different types of framework/models are present which are explaining the procedure of insect detection.
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