Mycoparasitism associated proteins from Trichoderma spp.: Relevance in combating fungal diseases of plants

摘要

Trichoderma (teleomorph Hypocrea) the soil-borne fungus grows in its natural habitat on plant root surfaces and acts as a mycoparasite. This mycoparasitic fungus adopts several methods of fungal disease control that occur sequentially and the articlesummarizes the mode of action of extracellular cell wall degrading lytic enzymes, antifungal metabolites, short oligosaccharides and host-derived signals in eliciting mycoparasitism in perspective to the genes encoding these mechanisms. Distinction of this study pertains to classification of Trichoderma spp. genes involved in mycoparasitism according to their mode of action that can lead to improved practical application by desigining efficient expression cassettes for combating plant fungal diseases through transgensis.