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Biological control or biocontrol is a method of controlling pests, whether pest animals such as insects and mites, weeds, or pathogens affecting animals or plants by using other organisms. [1] It relies on predation , parasitism , herbivory , or other natural mechanisms, but typically also involves an active human management role.
A Biopesticide is a biological substance or organism that damages, kills, or repels organisms seens as pests. Biological pest management intervention involves predatory, parasitic, or chemical relationships.
[1] They can also combat pathogenic microbes in cattle. Different forage species regulate their own rhizosphere to varying degrees and favouring various microbes. Kyselková et al 2015 find planting forage species known to encourage native rhizobacteria retards the spread within the soil of antibiotic resistance genes of cow faeces bacteria ...
Non-native species can provide ecosystem services, functioning as biocontrol agents to limit the effects of invasive agricultural pests. [131] Asian oysters, for example, filter water pollutants better than native oysters in Chesapeake Bay. [136] Some species have invaded an area so long ago that they are considered to have naturalised there.
An example is chitosan which is found in insects, fungi and the shells of crustaceans. Chitosan is used in agriculture as a natural biocontrol agent, to improve plant health and increase crop yields. Chitosan is used in agriculture as a natural biocontrol agent, to improve plant health and increase crop yields.
EB92-1 is a nonpathogenic strain of X. f. which is used as a biocontrol of its relatives. [26] (Really it is dramatically less pathogenic. It does colonize grape vines but rarely and less severely.) [26] Zhang et al., 2011 finds very little genomic distance between pathogenic and EB92-1 strains. [26]
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Pseudomonas fluorescens has multiple flagella, an extremely versatile metabolism, and can be found in the soil and in water.It is an obligate aerobe, but certain strains are capable of using nitrate instead of oxygen as a final electron acceptor during cellular respiration.