A Review on Biocontrol Agents as Sustainable Approach for Crop Disease Management: Applications, Production, and Future Perspectives

Horticulturae, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 10(8), С. 805 - 805

Опубликована: Июль 30, 2024

Horticultural crops are vulnerable to diverse microbial infections, which have a detrimental impact on their growth, fruit quality, and productivity. Currently, chemical pesticides widely employed manage diseases in horticultural crops, but they negative effects the environment, human health, soil physiochemical properties, biodiversity. Additionally, use of has facilitated development spread resistant pathovars, emerged as serious concern contemporary agriculture. Nonetheless, adverse consequences environment public health worried scientists greatly recent years, led switch biocontrol agents such bacteria, fungi, insects control plant pathogens. Biocontrol (BCAs) form an integral part organic farming, is regarded future sustainable Hence, harnessing potential BCAs important viable strategy disease way that also ecofriendly can improve health. Here, we discuss role biological crops. We different microbial-based fungal, bacterial, viral management. Next, factors affect performance under field conditions. This review highlights genetic engineering enhance efficiency other growth traits. Finally, highlight challenges opportunities biocontrol-based management horticulture research directions boost efficacy applications.

Язык: Английский

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Global insights and advances in edible coatings or films toward quality maintenance and reduced postharvest losses of fruit and vegetables: An updated review

Comprehensive Reviews in Food Science and Food Safety, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 24(1)

Опубликована: Янв. 1, 2025

Abstract Transitioning to safe, nonthermal, and edible strategies for maintaining fruit vegetable (F&V) quality, reducing postharvest losses (up 55% annually), ensuring food security requires extensive research innovation in technologies. This review aims provide an updated understanding of coatings or films (ECF), focusing on their role F&V losses, based data from the last 40 years retrieved Web Science database. The global ECF network is represented by publication trends, majorly researched F&V, key areas, influential emerging authors, ranking. preserving quality has been assessed examining critical parameters, including weight loss, total soluble solids, titratable acidity, ripening, softening, sensory organoleptic characteristics, browning, chilling injury, microbial safety. Furthermore, recent advancements formulations, nanoscale ingredients application methodologies, have critically discussed. Sources, categorization, strategies, mode action, functional properties, sustainable development goals (SDGs), challenges, safety, legislations, future perspectives also findings indicate that China (20.34%) USA (9.94%) are leading countries research. Studies demonstrated ECF's potential parameters through advanced compositions methodologies. Notably, supports multiple SDG targets, SDGs 2, 3, 8, 9, 12, 13, 15. Future should explore 3D‐printed coatings, nonflavor‐altering components, crosslinking agents enhance reduce losses.

Язык: Английский

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Bio-Based Surfactants and Biosurfactants: An Overview and Main Characteristics

Molecules, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 30(4), С. 863 - 863

Опубликована: Фев. 13, 2025

Natural surfactants are surface-active molecules synthesized from renewable resources (i.e., plants, animals, or microorganisms) and possess properties comparable to conventional surfactants, making them an environmentally friendly potential alternative petrochemical surfactants. Additionally, they exhibit biological such as anti-microbial properties, biodegradability, less toxicity, allowing their use in everyday products with minimal risk human health the environment. Based on mode of production, natural can be classified into first-generation bio-based second-generation biosurfactants, although definition may vary depending author literature. This review offers extensive classification focusing composition, sources, production methods, applications across various industries. Furthermore, main challenges future perspectives discussed.

Язык: Английский

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Identification of antifungal lipopeptides from Bacillus subtilis Sh-17 targeting Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici

Chemical and Biological Technologies in Agriculture, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 12(1)

Опубликована: Март 3, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Eco-friendly coating engineered with antimicrobial lipopeptides maintains freshness and induces genes expression in anthocyanin biosynthesis of blueberry

International Journal of Biological Macromolecules, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 141590 - 141590

Опубликована: Март 1, 2025

Язык: Английский

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LC-MS/MS profiling and analysis of Bacillus licheniformis extracellular proteins for antifungal potential against Candida albicans

Journal of Proteomics, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 303, С. 105228 - 105228

Опубликована: Июнь 13, 2024

Язык: Английский

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