Biochemical Validation of Rice Blast Incidence Reduction due to Trichoderma Application

Author: Biswajit Jena*, A.K. Senapati, Lipilipsa Priyadarshinee and Sandhyarani Nanda

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Abstract

Rice crop is extremely sensitive to attack by different pathogens at all phases of development, affecting both quality and quantity of its yields, which results in lower productivity. Among the different diseases, blast disease is considered the principal fungal disease of rice and is the major threat to rice production due to its cosmopolite presence. Rice plants are also impacted by abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, submergence, and so on, of which, drought plays a significant role in reducing yield as well as growth and development of the plant. Bio-control agents, such like Trichoderma spp. are hailed as effective, eco-friendly, and cheap sources of stress beaters. Drought aversion using morphological adaptations, drought tolerance through physiological and biochemical adaptations, and accelerated drought recovery are all claimed to be mechanisms used by Trichoderma spp., a well-known beneficial fungus. Hence it was planned to mitigate blast and drought simultaneously us

Keywords

Trichoderma harzianum, drought, Biochemical characters, proline, ROS (Reactive Oxygen Species), SOD (Superoxide dismutase), MDA (Malondialdehyade), lignin, APX (Ascorbate peroxidase).

Conclusion

In the present investigation, it was employed to mitigate the biotic stress due to blast and abiotic stress such as drought. Separate studies have shown that they help to reduce disease and drought stress. It was concluded that Trichoderma harzianum has numerous advantages in the plant and its effects on disease incidence, drought stress, and yield was linked with morphological and biochemical features, substantiating the findings. The utilization of several isolates and records of differences among them in providing advantages is a novel idea that should be studied further.

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Biswajit Jena, A.K. Senapati, Lipilipsa Priyadarshinee and Sandhyarani Nanda (2022). Biochemical Validation of Rice Blast Incidence Reduction due to Trichoderma Application. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 14(1): 1424-1431.