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Explain how Trichoderma acts as a bio-control agent.

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1. Trichoderma is an effective biocontrol agent against soil borne fungal plant pathogens. 

2. It is a free-living fungus found in the root ecosystem (rhizosphere). 

3. It produces substances like viridin, gliotoxin, gliovirin, etc. that inhibit the soil borne pathogens which infect root and rhizomes to cause rot disease.



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