Progress on Mechanism and Applications of Trichoderma as a Biocontrol Microbe

Trichoderma is widely used as a biocontrol microbe against plant diseases in the world,which is mainly applied for controlling a variety of soil borne plant diseases and some plant aboveground diseases.With the advent of MAMPs(microbe-associated molecular patterns) theory,the study on mechanism of plant disease control and improved plant resistance to stress factors with Trichoderma as a biocontrol agent has come into a new stage,especially as the development of technologies based on systems biology,it has become possible to understand the nature of interaction of plant-Trichoderma-pathogen from point of omics view,which therefore would intensively enrich the theory basis of Trichoderma as biocontrol agent.Meanwhile,a diversified technical system for applying Trichoderma products developed in national agricultural industry would provide great promotion to sustainable development of agriculture in the future.This review will focus on new research progress on biocontrol mechanism with Trichoderma against plant diseases at molecular level.