Genome mining andIn‐silicodetermination of secondary metabolites of bacteria againstFusarium oxysporumf. sp.Lycopersici

Abstract

Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. lycopersici (FOL) is one of the utmost complex and adaptive species in the Eumycota, it is a soil borne pathogen of a wide range horticultural and food crops causing wilts, rots and damping diseases (Bodah, 2017). Of particular, interest is FOL significant contribution to tomatoes vascular wilt disease. Solanum lycopersicum L. of the family Solanaceae and commonly known as tomato is a heavily consumed crop throughout the world and important source of vitamins A and C (Hanson et al., 2016). Serious agricultural loss before and during harvest and decrease in economic value of tomatoes are often caused by the vascular wilt due to FOL. Tomato vascular wilt is the most destructive and devastating disease characterized with invasion of the xylem vessels from the root thereby leading to wilting and death of the plant. (Swarupa et al., 2014). FOL often harbour secreted in xylem (SIX) and tomatinase (TOM) proteins during its growth which provide support to its pathogenicity against this crop (Sonkar & Pritam, 2020). The management of Fusarium sp in crop production is often by the use of expensive fungicide (de la Isla & Macías-Sánchez, 2017),