Bacterial Biopesticides: Biodiversity, Role in Pest Management and Beneficial Impact on Agricultural and Environmental Sustainability

Overview

Journal Heliyon

Specialty Social Sciences

Date 2024 Jun 3

PMID 38828310

Authors

Preety Tomar

Neelam Thakur

Samiksha Jhamta

Sohini Chowdhury

Monit Kapoor

Sangram Singh

Sheikh Shreaz

Sarvesh Rustagi

Pankaj Kumar Rai

Ashutosh Kumar Rai

Ajar Nath Yadav

Affiliations

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Abstract

Agro-environmental sustainability is based upon the adoption of efficient resources in agro-practices that have a nominal impact on the ecosystem. Insect pests are responsible for causing severe impacts on crop productivity. Wide ranges of agro-chemicals have been employed over the last 50 years to overcome crop yield losses due to insect pests. But better knowledge about the hazards due to chemical pesticides and other pest resistance and resurgence issues necessitates an alternative for pest control. The applications of biological pesticides offer a best alternate that is safe, cost-effective, easy to adoption and successful against various insect pests and pathogens. Like other organisms, insects can get a wide range of diseases from various microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, protozoa, and nematodes. In order to create agricultural pest management practices that are environmentally beneficial, bacterial entomopathogens are being thoroughly studied. Utilization of bacterial biopesticides has been adopted for the protection of agricultural products. The different types of toxin complexes released by various microorganisms and their mechanisms of action are recapitulated. The present review described the diversity and biocontrol prospective of certain bacteria and summarised the potential of bacterial biopesticides for the management of agricultural pests, insects, and other phytopathogenic microorganisms in agricultural practices.

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