Many farmers are moving towards the organic farming due to ecofriendly agriculture. We can change the farming scenario towards the natural/organic farming without intruption in biological process of plant. It is possible to make the chemical free foods with biopesticides and organic mannures. Future of agriculture will be framed in a natural farming due to climate change and different climaties like COVID 19.
Biopesticides are able to control pests. But your question is can we diagnose plant diseases through biopesticides. Diagnostics is prerequisite, where identification will be followed by suitable control measure accordingly. Pheromone traps and lures are biopesticide diagnostic tools to trap and identify pests. Apart from it trap crops and indicator crops are good means of monitoring of crop for symptoms.
Control measures depend on the proper identification of diseases and of the causal agents. Therefore, diagnosis is one of the most important aspects of a plant pathologist's training. Without proper identification of the disease and the disease-causing agent, disease control measures can be a waste of time and money and can lead to further plant losses. A proper disease diagnosis is therefore vital.
@ Satyapal, I think without proper identification bio-pesticides can not help you. Immunofluorescence (IF) is a fluorescence microscopy-based optical technique used for the analyses of microbiological samples. The technique can also be utilized to detect pathogen infections in plant tissues. For this technique, plant samples are fixed to microscope slides in thin tissue sections. Viral identification is often accomplished utilizing ELISA (enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay) which is based on the binding of an antibody produced to a specific virus with the virus in the infected plant material
J. C. Tarafdar Thank your very much sir for spectacular information.
Keep in mind also that in organic agriculture preventing problems (disease, insect infestations, nutrients deficiencies) is a priority. Therefore, even without having much knowledge in identifying the causes of disease, or crop problems in general I would say that teaching farmers how to build up soil health is fundamental to achieve success. The other element that should be taught to farmers is the power of agrobiodiversity. Therefore, diversification in crops and conservation of marginal patches near, or within the farm that cannot be cultivated with native vegetation, will increase the diversity, which eventually will mitigate the risks of crop disease outbreak.
Thanks Bruno Borsari for valuable comments. Farmers are growing crops as per directives of extension scientist and recommendations by the government. If it is possible to cure diseases and insect-pest through bio-pesticides besides the chemical insecticides. Therefore, farmers are conserving agro-biodiversity and cultivating natural farming.
I would like to mention that biopesticides are using to control insect pest in organic cultivation of crops. I intended to ask the question is that biopesticides are able to control all desesses and pest as per suggestions by above said dependent on disease diagnose practicability to the farmers and use of diverse varieties to know the power of Agrobiodiversity.
Biopesticides are able to control pests. But your question is can we diagnose plant diseases through biopesticides. Diagnostics is prerequisite, where identification will be followed by suitable control measure accordingly. Pheromone traps and lures are biopesticide diagnostic tools to trap and identify pests. Apart from it trap crops and indicator crops are good means of monitoring of crop for symptoms.
So far, I know, biopesticides are used to control or inhibit the insect pest’s population but not uses to identify or diagnosis purposes. To take any intervention, it’s quite necessary to diagnosis that problems properly. Is it pathogen infections or insect pest’s infestation? I am doing work with some biopesticides to control insect pests. Good luck.
- Badges
- Science topic
- Similar topics
- Agriculture