Plant Metabolites- A Brief Review on Natural Approach to Combat Plant Pathogenic Infections

Author: Fatima Siddiqua, Sushmita Paul and Kumananda Tayung

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Abstract

The productivity of agricultural crops is severely affected by various plant pathogens, among which bacteria and fungi are causing the major crop destructions. The crop damage caused by these plant pathogens are causing major threats to global food production and turns out to be a worldwide problem. Commercial pesticides used to control these plant pathogens are causing detrimental effects on human health and environment. Therefore, scientists are approaching a safe and environment friendly method to combat this crisis where plant metabolites are used as bio-pesticides. Various investigations on plant metabolites and its potential in eradicating plant pathogens, makes it the most effective alternative solution to chemical pesticides. But such works are not compiled systematically to gather knowledge about their affectivity and mode of use for further investigation. So, in this article, some lists are compiled for plant metabolites that were used as effective bio-pesticides in controlling several infectious plant diseases caused by bacteria and fungi.

Keywords

Metabolites, Synthetic, Resistance, Biodegradation, Toxicity, Pollutants

Conclusion

As there are several concerns over excessive use of synthetic pesticides and their polluting nature that causes soil pollution impacting our human health to a great extend. Therefore, there is an urgent need to initiate more studies on finding plant alternatives for the synthetic pesticides. From the above observation, it was clear that many plants are effectively controlling the growth of various prevalent plant pathogens. Our nature is full of medicinal plants which are surrounded by numerous potent plants that are capable of giving promising results. These plants can be used against plant pathogens and thus, it can reduce the toxic effects of synthetic pesticides and can preserve our natural ecosystem from biodegradation as the plant derived products like essential oil, plant crude extracts have low mammalian toxicity, less adverse environmental effects and wide public acceptance.

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How to cite this article

Fatima Siddiqua, Sushmita Paul and Kumananda Tayung (2023). Plant Metabolites- A Brief Review on Natural Approach to Combat Plant Pathogenic Infections. Biological Forum – An International Journal, 15(2): 643-650.