The biocontrol potential of the bacteriophages has been known to man since its discovery a century ago. Bacteriophage therapy or the use of bacteriophages for the management of bacterial diseases is a concept with a controversial past and hence, still an uncommon practice especially in the agricultural sector. However, in the present decade there has been a renewed interest and several successful researches owing to the better understanding of the phage biology and ecology by using modern techniques like the next generation sequencing and metagenomics. | Bacteriophages A potential next generation biocontrol tool for plant disease management
