2. What is microbes?
Microbes, or microorganisms
are minute living things that
are usually unable to be
viewed with the naked eye.
⚫Bacteria, fungi, protozoa, algae,
viruses are examples!
3. Chemical in Agriculture
Farmers use -
Chemical Pesticides.
Chemical fertilizers.
In the last century, chemical fertilizers were used in
agriculture. Farmers were happy of getting increased
yield in agriculture in the beginning .
But slowly chemical fertilizers started displaying their
ill-effects such as:
Polluting water.
Destroying micro-organisms
and friendly insects
Making the crop more
able to the attack of diseases.
4. Microbes in Agriculture
Microbes are harmful but some
microbes are useful for our day to life.
⚫Microbes in agriculture used as-
Bio-control agent.
Biological fertilizer/ Biofertilizer.
5. Biological control agents
⚫First coined by Harry
Smith in relation to the
biological control of
insects.
⚫Biological control agents are
◦ Pollution free.
◦ Host specific.
10. Beauveria
⚫Use spore sprayed on affected crops .
⚫Can be used as a biological insecticide to
control a number of pests such as aphid,
mites ,mealy bugs, whiteflies, and many
other insects.
⚫Ex- Beauveria bassiana
12. Trichoderma
⚫Very important and famous for soil bone
plant pathogen.
⚫Generally grows in its natural habitat on
the root surface and so affects root
disease in particular.
⚫Can also be effective against foliar
diseases
⚫Ex-T. harzianum, T. hamatum
14. Nosema
⚫It is available in powder from
⚫It is poisonous.
⚫Grasshoppers, Caterpillars, Crickets eat
the tender part of plants.
⚫They die because of nosema.
15. NPV(Nuclear Polyhedrosis
Virus)
⚫ It is also available in powder from
⚫ Unable to affect humans in the way it affects
insects
⚫ It is transferred from insect to insect through
crystals in all of their bodily emissions.
⚫ Kill Gypsy moths, Caterpillars.
16. Biological fertilizer/
Biofertilizer
Pest can control by bio-control agents but what
about the fertility of soil.
When palnt production or crops production is not
enough chemical fertilizer can switch over
biofertilizer.
It is nothing but either bacteria or blue green algae
or some fungus.
These microorganism should be-
I. N2 Fixers.
II. Phosphate solubilizers.
18. • It is available in powder from
• Convert atmosphere nitrogen into nitrate
and nitrite.
• Increase the nitrogen contain of soil.
⚫ Azotobacter
Clostridium
Bacillus polymyxa
Free-living
N2 Fixing bacteria
19. ⚫Make special cells called heterocysts.
Heterocysts are cells that are terminally
specialized for nitrogen fixation.
⚫Use only paddy fields.
⚫By dead Nitrate and ammonia will be
available.
⚫Nostoc, Anabaena, Aulosira
Free-living
N2 Fixing BGA
20. Symbiotic
Fixing Bacteria
⚫It is well known biofertilizer.
⚫Always associated with roots of legumes
plants.
⚫Take nitrogen from the air into Ammonia
which acts as a natural fertilizer for the
plants.
⚫ Need higher amount of nitrogen
⚫ Rhizobium-Root nodules in
legumes
N 2
21. •Make special cells called heterocysts.
Heterocysts are cells that are
terminally specialized for nitrogen
fixation.
⚫Use only paddy fields.
⚫Anabaena Azollae in Azolla.
Symbiotic
N 2 Fixing BGA
22. Mycorrhiza
⚫Mycorrhizas are commonly divided into
ectomycorrhizas (external surface of root)
and endomycorrhizas (inside the cell).
⚫They can absorb more amount of calcium,
magnesium, Water and most important
phosphate.
25. EM IN AGRICULTURE
⚫Enhances the photosynthetic capacity of
crops
⚫Develops resistance of plants to pests
and disease
⚫Improves physical, chemical and
biological environments of the soil and
destroy soil born pathogens and pests
26. Microbes in Agriculture
⚫Bio-control agent are expensive ,safe then
chemical pesticides.
⚫Biofertilizers are cheap ,safe and
renewable resources rather than chemical
fertilizers.
⚫At last microorganisms play an important
role in Agriculture.