40 Volume 2 • Issue 1 • 1000107 Madridge J Agric Environ Sci. ISSN: 2643-5500 Madridge Journal of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences Review Article Open Access Trichoderma : A Complete Tool Box for Climate Smart Agriculture Ferdous Akter 1 *, Md. Giush Uddin Ahmed 1 , and M Firoz Alam 2 ¹Department of Agronomy & Agricultural extension, University of Rajshahi, Bangladesh ²Department of Botany, University of Rajshahi, Rajshahi, Bangladesh Article Info *Corresponding author: Ferdous Akter Department of Agronomy & Agricultural extension University of Rajshahi Rajshahi-6205 Bangladesh E-mail: ferdousakter@ru.ac.bd Received: January 17, 2019 Accepted: March 11, 2019 Published: March 15, 2019 Citation: Akter F, Ahmed GU, Alam MF. Trichoderma: A Complete Tool Box for Climate Smart Agriculture. Madridge J Agric Environ Sci. 2019; 2(1): 40-43. doi: 10.18689/mjaes-1000107 Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Published by Madridge Publishers Abstract The green revolution practiced at a great cost of environment to meet the ever- increasing demands for food and fiber. The indiscriminate use of agrochemicals resulted in a damaged ecosystem, food and water contamination, lost of local cultivar, pesticide tolerance, and disease resistance along with different climate change vulnerability. All these pressurize further on agricultural system to increase its productivity. Short-termed chemical remedy turns into today’s hot topics of both environment and health concern. There is an urgent need to develop a sustainable approach for maximum crop production with minimum damage in climate vulnerable zone. Trichoderma are eco-friendly bio- reliance similar to organic and integrated management (IPM) recognized globally. In Bangladesh, the time is to avail Trichoderma as substitute of agrochemicals and fertilizers to combat biotic, abiotic both stresses. This study is for searching beneficial arsenal of Trichoderma to discover the whole tool box to counteract climate threat in rising demand of crop. Keywords: Trichoderma; Fertilizers; Climate change; Agrochemicals. Introduction Trichoderma is a member of the largest group of fungi Ascomycota belonging to the Class Deuteromycetes. Trichoderma are soil born, free living, asexually reproducing filamentous fungi. Members of the genus are commonly isolated from soil and well known as avirulent plant symbiontas well as opportunistic invader. Kubicek et al. [1] explored its ubiquitousness and found Trichoderma as cosmopolitan and prevalent components of different ecosystem. They compete for food and site as a dominant component of soil microflora and predominantly occur in dead things and plant litter [2]. The high reproductive capacity with long self-lived profuse conidia, ability to grow under any irritable conditions, easy and inexpensive cultivation facilitates them to be used as a unique tool in organic agriculture. They also introduced as potential antagonist and being used as biopesticides globally for their driving force of disease suppressiveness to fungi and some nematodes. Apart from biocontrol aspect they nourished plant by solubilize plant nutrients, remediate pollutants and heavy metals thus impart abiotic stress tolerance. There are many products in market relying on microorganism but the inconsistency under field conditions and lack of proper information restricts their efficacy. It is necessary to know how Trichoderma interact with plant and other microbes to expand its use. Genome sequencing of Trichoderma species has done at certain level, provide data on understanding tetrahedron molecular interactions of mycoparasitism and Trichoderma-root symbiosis [3]. Now a wave of interest is addressed by growers and researchers to mitigate climate difficulty with a sustainable approach. We review the findings on several studies regarding environmental stress to un-mask and design a complete safeguard. ISSN: 2643-5500