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Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Potential Plant Protective Agent Against Herbivorous Insect and Its Importance in Sustainable Agriculture

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Wide use of fertilizers and chemicals for food grain production to feed the world population with increasing demand leads to environmental pollution. Alternatively, the use of biological sources such as beneficial microbes to improve crop production as a component of sustainable agriculture production and environmentally friendly. Among them, arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) are well-known soil microbe forms a symbiotic association with land plants including agricultural important crops. This beneficial AM fungi improving plant growth, and it also fount to improve resistance capacity of plants against diverse stresses, including herbivorous insect damage through altering the morphological and biochemical traits. In response to herbivore stress, AMF augments plant defense in both constitutive and inducible manner leads to reduce insect damage. AMF induced or primed plant defense mechanisms against herbivorous insect damage have so far underestimated. Therefore, we discuss here an overview of research findings related to AMF induced or priming of immune response in plants against herbivore-induced stress. Acquired mechanisms of plant associated with AMF to protect themselves from pests by altering nutrient availability and physiology. AMF-mediated response of plants to herbivore varied with host plants, AMF species, and degree of colonization, type of pest, and crop management system. With these contexts AMF is could be a good bioprotective agent against pest apart from improving plant growth and this is an integral part of the integrated pest management system for sustainable agriculture production.

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Selvaraj, A., Thangavel, K. (2021). Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi: Potential Plant Protective Agent Against Herbivorous Insect and Its Importance in Sustainable Agriculture. In: Shrivastava, N., Mahajan, S., Varma, A. (eds) Symbiotic Soil Microorganisms. Soil Biology, vol 60. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51916-2_19

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