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Carriers and Their Role in Plant Agrosystem

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The population explodes and the concerns of biomagnifications by the use of synthetic pest control methods are two major problems that have created the major food crop crises in the world. To eradicate the problem, various green practices like bioformulations, mixed cropping, etc. have been designed and implicated, but almost all of them had delivery constraints, and to minimize this, effective delivery model was needed. The researchers in the quest designed a model that was harmless, stable, and inert and that did not interfere with biocontrol activity against pest which can be used at time of harvesting and postharvesting as well as to increase the shelf life; such models were called as carriers. Various types of carriers have been studied and applied, but the rate of biocontrol is still yet to reach the optimum. So it becomes necessary to gain an insight into the constraints in effective biocontrol and retrospect the best practices to minimize the constraints.

This chapter throws light on carriers, their types, their formation and inoculation, and finally their role in plant agrosystem which will further help the researchers in designing the cost-effective and efficient carrier with minimum delivery constraints and eliciting maximum biocontrol to finally eradicate the use of synthetic pest control practices from the system.

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Sahai, P., Kumar, V. (2017). Carriers and Their Role in Plant Agrosystem. In: Kumar, V., Kumar, M., Sharma, S., Prasad, R. (eds) Probiotics and Plant Health. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-3473-2_12

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