Description

Pseudomonas fluorescens is a promising biocontrol agent and PGPR for sustainable agriculture, They are suitable for application as biological control agents due to their abundant population in natural soils and plant root system and their capability to utilize many plant exudates as nutrients. It act as both biological fungicide and biological nematicide. It acts as antibiotics against plant pathogens. It also produces antifungal compounds which are fungistatic, inhibiting spore germination and lysis of fungal mycelia. The bacteria outcompete pathogenic soil microbes by siderophores.