Microbes can be used to decrease the use of chemical fertilizers & pesticides. Explain how this can be accomplished?
Chemicals are used to combat plant diseases and pests in modern society, however, these chemicals are poisonous and exceedingly damaging to humans and the environment. In agriculture, for example, there is a form of pest control that depends on natural predation rather than pesticides, such as To control butterflies, caterpillars, and other insects, a bacteria are known as Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) is provided as dried spores in sachets that are mixed with water and sprayed onto sensitive plants such as brassicas, where the larvae are consumed. The toxin is released in the intestines of larvae, killing them. The bacterial sickness kills the caterpillar but does not harm other insects.
