Increasing food demand by the ever-growing population imposes an extra burden on the
agricultural and food industries. Chemical-based pesticides, fungicides, fertilizers, and high …

Highlights•Biosurfactant can be eco-friendly, sustainable alternative to chemical surfactant.•
Biosurfactants act through mobilization, sorption, desorption, emulsification, etc.•Microbial …

Antifungal activity of rhamnolipids (RLs) has been widely studied against many plant
pathogenic fungi, but not against Fusarium verticillioides, a major pathogen of maize (Zea …

Sophorolipids are bioactive molecules that have gained a lot of attention in the recent
decades due to their unique functional properties of reducing surface and interfacial tension …

Blast disease caused by Magnaporthe oryzae is a devastating disease that limits rice grain
production. Here, we synthesized rhamnolipid (RL) modified silica nanoparticles (SiO2NPs) …

BACKGROUND Phytopathogenic microorganisms are the main cause of plant diseases,
generating significant economic losses for the agricultural and food supply chain. Cherry …

The present study evaluates the in-vitro antibiofilm activity against the biofilm formed by
Staphylococcus aureus, and the wound-healing efficacy of two different types of …

Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is an important disease affecting tomatoes.
Biological control offers an environmentally friendly approach to controlling pathogens …

In sustainable agriculture, integrated plant nutrition management along with a biological
agent is an imperative module as a cost-effective and eco-friendly approach against drastic …

A Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain KVD-HM52 exhibiting good emulsification activity (E
24%) and oil spreading capacity was isolated from oil contaminated mangrove sediments …