The microorganisms associated with insects and their application in agriculture
Keywords:
insects, gut, microorganism, symbiosis, faecesAbstract
Insects represent the most numerous and widely distributed group of animals, in part due to their association with varied intestinal microorganisms (gut microbiota). These microorganisms greatly benefit their hosts, through a nutritional symbiosis that, regulating their physiology and development, protects them against pathogens and harmful substances or collaborates in communicative tasks. Because insects and plants have coexisted and evolved together millions of years and the microbiota of both organisms also has characteristics to be taken into account in agriculture, such as the production of plant hormones, nutrient fixation and solubilization, or modulation of plant defense responses.
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