The agricultural applications of lentinan mainly include the following aspects:
Disease control: As a biological agent, lentinan has the ability to induce plant resistance, stimulate plant immune activating factors, and promote the synthesis of disease process-related proteins in the body such as chitinase and glucanase, thereby preventing disease susceptibility and killing. Destroy invading viruses in plants and effectively prevent the occurrence and spread of plant viral diseases.
Inhibition of virus proliferation: Lentinan can act on the virus infection receiving point on the host, hindering the synthesis of viral proteins on the host ribosomes, making the virus unable to replicate.
Directly acts on viruses: Lentinan can combine with virions, reducing the ability of virions to recognize the host, leading to virus inactivation.
Improve crop immunity: Lentinan can not only inhibit crop viral diseases, but also have a certain preventive effect on fungal and bacterial diseases. It can significantly improve crop immunity, and may increase crop yield and improve crop quality, which is beneficial to green and harmless diseases. Harmful food production.
Widely used: Lentinan can be widely used in wheat, corn, rice, peanuts, soybeans, tomatoes, peppers, cucumbers, tobacco, citrus, jujubes, apples, pears, peaches and other crops.
Lentinan was not originally used in agriculture, but in the pharmaceutical industry. Because of its green and environmentally friendly properties and its inhibitory mechanism against viral diseases, it was later used in the prevention and treatment of viral diseases in agricultural crops.
