attenuation of corn chrysomelide damage with microbial seed treatments

摘要

corn chrysomelids are potentially devastating pests in corn production, especially in the corn belt in the united states. the microbial tools developed provide skills to colonize plant roots endophytically. these endophytic microbes can be applied as seed treatments or in several other ways that allow them to colonize plant roots, where they provide beneficial systemic changes in plant physiology. treatment with trichoderma organisms in seeds attenuated root damage, although the number of earthworm larvae in the roots has not been reduced.