Modern ideas about the prospects of using associative bacteria as inducers of plant resistance to fungal phytopathogens are presented and analyzed. Plants have developed a unique strategy to counter biotic and abiotic stresses by co-evolving symbiotically with microorganisms. Beneficial bacteria associated with plants, capable of synthesizing complexes of hydrolases and biologically active compounds, stimulate their host to create protection against pathogen penetration. The synthesis of phytoalexins and proteins associated with pathogenesis, accumulation of callose, and lignification of the cell wall, as well as increased activity of various protective enzymes, are initiated in plant cells. This helps to accelerate and strengthen plant resistance, which is effective in the field and represents a natural mechanism for biological disease control.
Sidorova et al. (Thu,) studied this question.