Isolation Identification and Characterization of Chitinolytic Organisms and their Potential in Biocontrol of Phytopathogenic Fungi

Abstract

The present day world is faced with the problem of population explosion. It was newlinereckoned that every year between 1995 and 2020, about a million people will be newlineadded to the world s population, increasing it by 32 percent to hit 7.5 billion and much of this population increase will take place in the cities of the developing world. newlineThe natural implications in the coming decades for the trading systems will be to meet the rising demands of food. The added factors that will exert pressure on the food supply include urbanization, income growth and associated changes in the lifestyle of the population (Pinstrup-Andersen and Pandya-Lorch 1999). newlineAgriculture in India accounts for one of the major economic growth of the country as it contributes to about 40 percent of the nation s income (Rangaswami and Mahadevan 1998). It plays a major role in socio-economic growth of the country. Paramount significance is laid on agriculture, since it forms a basic industry decreeing the fate of the entire economy of our country. newline