The College of Education for Pure Sciences at the University of Basraا  organized a scientific lecture entitled (Evaluating the effectiveness of some types of bacteria and filamentous bacteria isolated from the soil in combating some plant diseases and identifying their effective compounds)
The lecture presented by the student (Saja Sabih Khudair Al-Atbi) included the ever-increasing search for natural products with vital activity, with the main focus on compounds from the metabolism of plants and microorganisms. Microbial receptors are the target of many innovative biotechnological researches, conducted to develop new bioactive products capable of exerting antimicrobial activity against important plant pathogens, conferring control of various plant diseases, inducing their resistance, and reducing the damage caused by such infections. Natural antimicrobials are the key to controlling plant pathogens in a more sustainable and environmentally friendly way, once different antimicrobials also induce systemic resistance. They present diverse structures and unique chemical properties, which directly influence their mechanism of action. Among the most studied microorganisms relevant to this field, the group Actinobacteria filamentis stands out as the largest group of receptor producers, followed by the genera Bacillus.
The lecture aims to
Isolation and identification of some biologically active compounds from microbial species that have the ability to kill or control plant diseases of bacterial origin.
And make applications in the biological control of some plants.
And the possibility of inducing systemic resistance within infected plants to obtain new plants from them that may be resistant or tolerant to these diseases.