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@article{195682,
        author = {Gayatri S. Dhengale and M. S. Darade},
        title = {Biocontrol Agents: Need and Importance in Soybean Crop},
        journal = {International Journal of Innovative Research in Technology},
        year = {2026},
        volume = {12},
        number = {no},
        pages = {89-91},
        issn = {2349-6002},
        url = {https://ijirt.org/article?manuscript=195682},
        abstract = {Biological controls widely described as the use of natural or modified organisms, genes, or gene products to mitigate pest and disease effects. Tillage, open field burning, heat treatment, and other physical treatments are commonly used to remove pests or separate them from crops. Chemical control refers to the employment of synthetic chemical insecticides to remove or reduce pest populations. The many approaches to biological control can be commonly classified into three categories: population regulation, exclusionary protection systems, and self- self-defense systems. The pest or disease agent itself are example of biological control agents. The principles of plant health care include understanding the agroecosystems production limits, rotating crops maintaining soil organic master, using clean planting materials, minimizing environmental and nutritional stresses, maximizing environmental and nutritional stresses, maximizing the benefits of beneficial organisms, and protecting with pesticides as required mode of action of biocontrol agents competition , antibiosis, mycoparasitism, lytic enzymes, hydrogen cyanide, induced systemic resistance, and plant growth promotion.},
        keywords = {Biocontrol agents, plant diseases, fungi, bacteria},
        month = {March},
        }