Impact of the omic technologies for understanding the modes of action of biological control agents against plant pathogens

• Published in: BioControl (Dordrecht, Netherlands) Vol. 60; no. 6; pp. 725 - 746
• Main Authors: Massart, Sebastien, Perazzolli, Michele, Höfte, Monica, Pertot, Ilaria, Jijakli, M. Haïssam
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 01.12.2015; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Agriculture; Animal Biochemistry; Animal Ecology; Antibiotics; Behavioral Sciences; Biological control; biological control agents; Biomedical and Life Sciences; Biosynthesis; Effectiveness; Entomology; Genes; Genomes; Genomics; Host plants; Identification; Life Sciences; mechanism of action; messenger RNA; Metabolites; Microorganisms; Motility; mutants; Pathogens; Peptides; Pesticides; plant pathogens; Plant Pathology; proteins; proteome; Proteomes; Proteomics; Review; transcriptome; Transcriptomes; Transcriptomics; Tri-trophic interactions; tritrophic interactions; Trophic relationships; Biocontrol agent; Transcriptomics; Biological control; Genomics; Omics; Proteomics

The characterization of microbial biological control agents (MBCAs) is crucial to improve their efficacy and consistency as biopesticides. Powerful approaches to characterize MBCA’s modes of action are provided by modern molecular technologies. This paper reviews improvements achieved in this subjec...