Biotechnological Control Methods Against Phytopathogenic Bacteria in Tomatoes

Due to the lack of control over the spread of pathogens and effective pesticides with antibacterial activity bacterial diseases cause significant economic losses in vegetable production including tomatoes. Therefore, the search for ways of biocontrol of bacterial diseases pathogens in vegetable crops is an extremely urgent problem. The literature review presents a systematic analysis of modern measures of agrotechnical, chemical and biotechnological control of bacterial diseases in tomatoes, and increasing the resistance degree of these crops against phytopathogenic bacteria using traditional methods, cell selection and the involvement of genetic engineering approaches. It is shown that agrotechnical measures are preventive in nature, while using chemicals and antibiotics has side effects, in particular phytotoxicity and the appearance of resistant strains of pathogens. Effective and economically viable is the use of biotechnological preparations and the cultivation of the varieties resistant to pathogens of bacterial diseases in vegetable crops. Selection of varieties resistant to phytopathogenic bacteria is based on the use of wild species as resistance sources. The creation of genetically modified plants containing avr-genes, resistance genes against bacterial phytotoxins, PR-proteins and AMP is promising.