Bacillus subtilis and Trichoderma: General characteristics and their agricultural applications

Abstract

Currently, food provision requires new tools that allow increasing the productivity of crops, without negative impacts on the environment. The plant rhizosphere is the soil part highly influenced by the root secretions. In this area, there is a high microbial activity, where different microorganisms, with agronomic applications, can live, and these can be used to develop products that contribute to face the challenges of current agriculture, such as the case of the bacterium Bacillus subtilis and different fungi species of the Trichoderma genus, which have been widely studied and used for the benefits that they give to plants. In this review, general characteristics of these microorganisms are described and the capacities these possess for their application in agricultural production, like an eco-friendly tool that helps to achieve food sovereignty, without the use of chemical compounds.