Research Article
Role of Secondary Metabolites Produced by Commercial Trichoderma Species and their Effect Against Soil Borne Pathogens
Vipul Kumar*, Mohammad Shahid, Mukesh Srivastava, Sonika Pandey, Anuradha Singh and Antima Sharma
Biocontrol Laboratory,Department of Plant Pathology, C.S. Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, UP, India
- Corresponding Author:
- Vipul Kumar
Biocontrol Laboratory, Department of Plant Pathology
C.S.Azad University of Agriculture and Technology, Kanpur, UP, India
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E-mail: vipulpathology@gmail.com
Received Date: April 09, 2014; Accepted Date: August 26, 2014; Published Date: September 05, 2014
Citation: Vipul K, Mohammad S, Muksesh S, Sonika P, Anuradha S, et al. (2014) Role of Secondary Metabolites Produced by Commercial Trichoderma Species and their Effect Against Soil Borne Pathogens. Biosens J 3:108. doi:
Copyright: © 2014 Vipul K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
The study was focused on the identification of the major secondary metabolites produced by the Trichoderma spp and soil borne pathogens. Trichoderma harzianum (Th. Azad) and Trichoderma viride (01PP) are two microorganisms used as active agents in a variety of commercial bio pesticides and bio fertilizers and widely applied on field and greenhouse crops. The production, isolation, biological and characterization of the major secondary metabolites produced by these strains is done during this study. Metabolites are organic compounds that are used in, or created by, the chemical reactions happening in every cell of living organisms. In this paper we are studying about the production of secondary metabolites from Trichoderma species against soil borne pathogens at 27oC at different time intervals. Higher the concentration of secondary metabolites, greater will be the efficiency against soil borne pathogens
