BACTÉRIAS ENDOFÍTICAS E SEU POTENCIAL PARA A PROMOÇÃO DO CRESCIMENTO DE CANA-DE-AÇUCAR: UMA REVISÃO DE LITERATURA

Abstract

There is a great concern of society with the overuse of pesticides being used in agriculture, most of them to control pests or diseases that thus generate several economic losses to rural producers, requiring research on new methods of controlling these pathogens. Endophytic bacteria offer a wide range of opportunities for their use, such as promoting the growth of plant growth in different cultures efficiently, inexpensively and sustainably. Therefore, this work aimed to carry out, through a bibliographic review, a survey of the importance of the application of endophytic microorganisms in agriculture, highlighting biological control. The selection of scientific articles was made with the aid of the insertion of the descriptors: promotion of plant growth, endophytic bacteria, sugar cane, phytopathogenic fungi, Fusarium oxysporum, Ceratocystis paradoxa and biological control, written in Portuguese and English. This study highlighted the importance of using endophytic bacteria in several cultures, where many isolates of the genera Bradyrhizobium sp., Rhizobium sp., Paenibacillus sp., Herbaspirillum seropedicae and Bacillus sp. among others, they showed remarkable characteristics in promoting plant growth through different mechanisms, such as making nutrients available to the plant, fixing atmospheric nitrogen, biological control and the production of plant growth regulators.