-Sanket Roy, Amity University Kolkata
Fusarium virguliforme causes the most catastrophic disease in Soybean named Sudden death syndrome (SDS) which destructs almost 80% of the total yield under favorable growth conditions.
To deal with the disastrous infection, a group of scientists from Southern Illinois University, University of Iowa and Syngenta Crop Protection have come up a solution that can inhibit the growth of the pathogen. The group led by Dr. Ahmad K. Fakhoury identified 47 Biological control agents (BCAs) including 41 Trichoderma sp. inhibit the growth of the pathogen via mycoparasitism and plant pathogen defense mechanism including JA- and SA- dependent pathway activation. The research provides that the antagonistic activity of the BCAs can be varied from 40 in 32 isolates to 92 % in one isolate of T. harzianum. The publication in Plant Disease has unbarred the experimental spectrum to develop technologies to defend such pathogens via mycoparasitism and specific interaction between other soil microbes.
Source: Trichoderma Isolates Inhibit Fusarium virguliforme Growth, Reduce Root Rot, and Induce Defense-Related Genes on Soybean SeedlingsMirian F. Pimentel, Erika Arnão, Amanda J. Warner, Arjun Subedi, Leonardo F. Rocha, Ali Srour, Jason P. Bond, and Ahmad M. Fakhoury, Plant Disease 2020 104:7, 1949-1959
Emerging role of Nanobioconjugates in biosensing platforms.
-Anwita Sarkar, Amity University Kolkata Over the past several years, with the advent of research, the coalescence of nanomaterials and biomolecules forming nanobioconjugates have emerged as potential architecture to amplify biorecognition of biosensors. Combination of biomolecules like nucleic acids, proteins, peptides, enzymes etc. with nanomaterials of noble metals have significant implication for the development of […]