Can we control potato fungal and bacterial diseases? — microbial regulation

Huiqin Shi, Wei Li, Yun Zhou, Jian Wang, Shuo Shen · 2023

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Potatoes feed much of the world, yet fungi and bacteria still wreck harvests, and chemical sprays carry their own costs. Huiqin Shi and co-authors review, in a 2023 paper, how helpful microbes might control those diseases instead. They start with the weapons the germs use to attack the plant.

The review then covers three ways to deploy friendly microbes: single strains, built communities of strains, and strains sealed in tiny capsules. The last two keep the helpers active and stable for longer in the field. The authors also weigh how farming practice, soil care, and climate push the whole system. They call for deeper work on new strains and on why some regions resist disease better than others.

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CREATORHuiqin Shi, Wei Li, Yun Zhou, Jian Wang, Shuo Shen
YEAR2023
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE58 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC10686857

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