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Ensuring Food Security Through Biocontrol in Medicinal Plant Cultivation
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The chapter demonstrated the ecologically friendly way to obtain safe and high quality of medicinal herbal supplements under environmental changes. Global warming has a significant impact on medicinal plant productivity, including changes in the strategies of disease agents that compromise health and food security. Plant pathogens increase their ability to survive and reproduce intensively, resulting in strengthened plant disease severity, contamination of raw materials with toxic fungal metabolites, and yield losses. The repeated application of biologicals has proven to be effective in addressing this issue. The positive impact of microbial preparations on Calendula officinalis L. was observed in various aspects such as field seed germination, plant vegetative mass, and root system development. Treated calendula plants showed reduced stress during drought periods compared to the control group. Additionally, there was a significant decrease in leaf disease incidence and severity. This led to an improvement in the quality of calendula inflorescence weight and seed mass.
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