Toward an integrated resource management: Harnessing Trichoderma for sustainable intensification in agriculture

Abstract

Trichoderma has proved its diverse role in agriculture as an efficient microorganism to overcome numerous challenges associated with it. Being ubiquitous in nature, studies conducted on it are totally safe and involve low-cost implementation. Initially the research works highlighted this microbe as a suitable biocontrol agent against most phytopathogens. Many strains of Trichoderma have been successfully screened out for its beneficial effects on soil fertility and plant health aspects, but we need an environment which is free of pollution, and therefore focusing on multiple functions of Trichoderma to fight against various biotic and abiotic stresses and the hazardous pollutants which can affect our food chain is important to maintain sustainability. This mini review attempts to include the potentials of Trichoderma in present and upcoming condition of resource management.