Table 1 The detail of roles and the type of interactions
From: Identification of plant diseases and distinct approaches for their management
Interaction | Role | References |
|---|---|---|
Mutualism | Stimulate host defense, improve nutrition in plants | Dodds and Rathjen (2010) |
Commensalism | Presence of such relationship creates challenges for pathogens, absence of it led to decrease in the severity of the infection | Eilenberg et al. (2001) |
Predators | They consume pathogen biomass for their sustenance, e.g. protists, mesofauna and microarthropods | Jones and Dangl (2006) |
Neutralism | It creates an inability between the interaction of the population dynamics of plant species to the pathogen | Juroszek and von Tiedemann (2011) |
Competition | Led to decrease in growth of infectious microbes | Coakley et al. (1999) |
Parasites | Involves the use of hyperparasites that led to parasitize the plant pathogens | Scherm (2004) |