Microbial Origin Nematicides: An Eco-friendly and Potent Tool to Management of the Plant Parasitic Nematodes

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Plant-parasitic nematodes (PPNs) are a serious threat to the quantity and quality of many economic crops around the world. As a result of rising dissatisfaction with the hazards of chemical nematicides, interest in microbial control of PPNs is developing, and biological nematicides are becoming an important component of ecologically acceptable management strategies. Bionematicides can be employed in integrated nematode management (INM) programs to maximize their benefits, with techniques that make them complementary or superior to chemical nematode control approaches. This is especially relevant in integrated pest control systems because bionematicides can operate synergistically or additively with other crop inputs. bionematicides and other pesticides should be used in a more coordinated manner. This is especially relevant because numerous bionematicides are already or will soon be commercially available. It is still necessary to identify research objectives for using fungal and bacterial nematicides in sustainable agriculture, as well as to get a better knowledge of their ecology, biology, mode of action, and interactions with other agricultural inputs. As a consequence, utilizing a microbial nematicide from the stated category as a plant-parasitic nematode biocontrol agent is a viable long-term biocontrol technique in agriculture.