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Acknowledgement |
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1.1 Concepts and Aims of Biological Management of Crop Diseases |
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1.2 Landmarks in the Development of Biological Disease Management Systems |
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1.3 Nature and Characteristics of Biological Control Agents |
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1.3.1 Biotic Biological Control Agents |
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1.3.2 Abiotic Biological Control Agents |
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2 Detection and Identification of Fungal Biological Control Agents |
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2.1 Methods of Detection and Identification |
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2.1.2 Biochemical Methods |
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2.1.4 Nucleic Acid-Based Techniques |
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2.2 Assessment of Biocontrol Potential of Fungi |
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2.2.2 Greenhouse/Growth Chamber Evaluation of Biocontrol Activity |
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2.2.3 Evaluation of Biocontrol Activity Against Postharvest Pathogens |
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2.2.4 Field Evaluation of Biocontrol Efficacy |
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2.3 Identification and Differentiation of Mycorrhizal Biological Control Agents |
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2.3.1 Methods of Detection and Identification |
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2.3.2 Assessment of Biological Control Potential of Mycorrhizal Fungi |
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2.3.3 Interaction Between Mycorrhizal Fungi and Fungal Biocontrol Agents and Bacterial Communities |
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2.3.4 Interaction Between Mycorrhizal Fungi and Resistance-Inducing Chemicals |
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Appendix 2.1 General and Selective Media for Isolation of Fungal Biocontrol Agents |
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Appendix 2.2 Generation of Antibodies Against Fungi (Banks et al. 1992) |
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Appendix 2.3 Detection of Fungi by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) Test (Bossi and Dewey 1992) |
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Appendix 2.4 Characterization of the Antibody Specific for Fungal Biocontrol Agent by Western Blotting Technique (Thornton et al. 2002) |
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Appendix 2.5 Detection of Fungal Biocontrol Agents by Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) (Thornton et al. 2002) |
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Appendix 2.6 Identification of Rhodotorula mucilaginosa by Dot Blot Hybridization Technique (Utkhade and Cao 2005) |
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Appendix 2.7 Assessment of Biocontrol Activity by In Vitro Tests |
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Appendix 2.8 Biopriming of Carrot Seeds with Biocontrol Agent Clonostachys rosea Effective Against Alternaria spp. (Jensen et al. 2004) |
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Appendix 2.9 Identification of Ectomycorrhizal Fungi by Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (Kulmann et al. 2003) |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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3 Mechanisms of Action of Fungal Biological Control Agents |
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3.1.3 Competition for Nutrients and Space |
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3.1.4 Prevention of Colonization of Host Tissues by Pathogens |
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3.1.5 Induction of Resistance in Plants to Diseases |
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3.1.6 Natural Host Plant Resistance |
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3.1.7 Factors Influencing Activities of Biocontrol Agents |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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4 Detection and Identification of Bacterial Biological Control Agents |
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4.1 Methods of Detection and Identification |
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4.1.2 Biochemical Methods |
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4.1.4 Nucleic Acid-Based Techniques |
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4.2 Assessment of Biocontrol Potential of Bacteria |
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4.2.2 Greenhouse Bioassays |
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4.2.3 Field Evaluation of Biocontrol Activity |
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Appendix 4.1 Media Used for Culturing Bacterial Biocontrol Agents |
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Appendix 4.2 Detection of Pseudomonas fluorescens (Pi) and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. cubense (Foc) in Banana Roots Using FITC Technique (Mohandas et al. 2004) |
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Appendix 4.3 Quantitative Detection of Pyrrolnitrin-Producing Bacteria by Real-Time PCR Assay (Garbeva et al. 2004) |
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Appendix 4.4 Identification of Pseudomonas fluorescens Using Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) (Scarpellini et al. 2004) |
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Appendix 4.5 Assessment of Antagonistic Activity of Bacterial Species in Agar Plates |
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Appendix 4.6 Assessment of Biocontrol Potential of Bacterial Isolates Against Fungal Pathogens Infecting Soybean and Tomato (Benitez and Mc Spadden Gardener 2009) |
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Appendix 4.7 Assessment of Effects of Seed Bacterization of Tomato with Lysobacter capsici PG4 on Incidence of Fusarium Wilt Disease Under Greenhouse Conditions (Puopolo et al. 2010) |
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Appendix 4.8 Effect of Root treatment with Pantoea agglomerans E278Ar on Development of Radish Bacterial Leaf Spot Caused by Xanthomonas campestris pv. armoraciae (Han et al. 2000) |
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Appendix 4.9 Assessment of Biocontrol Efficacy of Nonpathogenic Strains of Agrobacterium spp. Against Tumorigenic Agrobacterium spp. Under Greenhouse Conditions (Kawaguchi et al. 2008) |
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Appendix 4.10 Suppression of Grapevine Pierce's Disease (PD) by Using Weakly Virulent Strains of the Pathogen Xylella fastidiosa (Xf) (Hopkins 2005) |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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5 Mechanisms of Action of Bacterial Biological Control Agents |
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Appendix 5.1 Visualization of Effects of the Metabolite 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG) of Pseudomonas spp. on Fungal Pathogen Using Confocal Laser Scanning Microscope (CLSM) (Islam and Fukushi 2010) |
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Appendix 5.2 Assessment of Effect of Phenazines on Microsclerotial Germination of Verticillium spp. by Microplate Assay (Debode et al. 2007) |
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Appendix 5.3 Assessment Antagonistic Activity of Bacterial Antagonists Against Agrobacterium spp. (Dandurishvili et al. 2010) |
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Appendix 5.4 Assessment of Activities of Enzymes in Papaya Fruits Treated with Pseudomonas putida MGY2 (Shi et al. 2011) |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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6 Detection and Identification of Viral Biological Control Agents |
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6.1 Viruses Pathogenic to Fungal Plant Pathogens |
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6.1.1 Biological Properties of Mycoviruses |
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6.1.2 Molecular Characteristics of Mycoviruses |
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6.2 Viruses Pathogenic to Bacterial Plant Pathogens |
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6.2.1 Biological Properties of Bacteriophages |
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6.2.2 Molecular Characteristics of Bacteriophages |
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6.3 Mild Strains of Plant Viruses as Biocontrol Agents |
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6.3.1 Use of Naturally Occurring Mild Strains |
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6.3.2 Use of Virus Strains with Attenuated Virulence |
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6.3.3 Mechanisms of Cross-Protection Induced by Viruses |
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6.3.4 Cross-Protection by Engineered Mild Strains of Viruses |
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6.4 Subviral Agents for Biological Disease Management |
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6.4.1 Satellite RNAs as Biocontrol Agents |
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6.4.2 Viroids as Biological Control Agents |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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7 Genetic Engineering for Improving the Performance of Biotic Biological Control Agents |
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7.1 Fungal Biological Control Agents |
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7.1.1 Selection of Efficient Fungal Species/Strains |
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7.1.2 Induction of Mutation in Specific Genes of Fungal Biological Control Agents |
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7.1.3 Transformation of Fungal Biocontrol Agents |
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7.1.4 Protoplast Fusion Technique |
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7.1.5 Transformation of Host Plants with Genes from Fungal Biological Control Agents |
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7.1.6 Antibody-Mediated Protection to Plants |
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7.2 Bacterial Biological Control Agents |
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7.2.1 Selection of Efficient Bacterial Species/Strains |
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7.2.2 Protoplast Fusion Technique |
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7.2.3 Transformation of Bacterial Biological Control Agents |
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7.2.4 Nonpathogenic Mutants Derived from Bacterial Pathogens |
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7.3 Genetically Modified Strains of Plant Viruses |
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7.3.1 Cross-Protection by Engineered Mild Strains of Viruses |
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7.3.2 Pathogen-Derived Resistance |
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7.4 Protection by Antibody Expression |
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Appendix 7.1 Interspecies Protoplast Fusion for Improving Biocontrol Activity of Trichoderma spp. (Hanson and Howell 2002) |
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8 Abiotic Biological Control Agents for Crop Disease Management |
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8.1 Natural Products of Plant and Animal Origin |
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8.1.1 Soilborne Plant Pathogens |
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8.1.2 Airborne Plant Pathogens |
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8.1.3 Products from Plant Sources |
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8.1.4 Products from Animal Sources |
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8.2 Synthetic Organic Compounds as Biological Control Agents |
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8.2.3 B-Aminobutyric Acid |
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8.2.6 Antimicrobial Peptides |
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8.2.7 Miscellaneous Organic Compounds |
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8.3 Inorganic Compounds as Biological Control Agents |
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Appendix 8.1 Induction of Resistance to Apple Fire Blight Disease by Acibenzolar-S-Methyl (ASM) and DL-3-Aminobutyric Acid (BABA) (Hassan and Buchenauer 2008) |
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Appendix 8.2 Induction of Systemic Acquired Resistance (SAR) by Acibenzolar-S-Methyl (ASM) in Tobacco Against Tomato spotted wilt virus (Mandal et al. 2008) |
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Appendix 8.3 Induction of Systemic Acquired Resistance in Pea Against Rust Disease by Abiotic Chemical Inducers (Barilli et al. 2010) |
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Additional References for Further Reading |
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Index |
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