Microbial Metabolomics Interaction and Ecological Challenges of Trichoderma Species as Biocontrol Inoculant in Crop Rhizosphere

The fungal species belonging to the genus Trichoderma has been globally recognized as a potential candidate of biofertilizer and biocontrol agent prevent devastating soil-borne pathogens enhance growth productivity agricultural crops. antagonistic activity pathogenic fungi is attributed several mechanisms including antibiosis enzymatic hydrolysis, which are largely associated with wide range metabolites secreted by species. Besides suppressing target pathogens, produced may act against non-pathogenic beneficial soil microbial communities perform unintended alterations within structures functions in crop rhizosphere. Multiple interactions have shown efficacy many cases compared bioinoculant employed alone. key advances understanding ecological special emphasis on their associations plant roots other microbes exist rhizosphere, briefly described here. This review focuses rhizosphere impacts communities. complex among Trichoderma–plants–microbes that occur underlined prospective avenues for future research this area explored. data presented here will stipulate sustainably maximizing efficiency inoculation secondary ecosystem.