Are microbes at the root of a solution to world food production? Rational exploitation of interactions between microbes and plants can help to transform agriculture

JP Morrissey, JM Dow, GL Mark, F O'Gara - EMBO reports, 2004 - embopress.org
Exploiting plants and microbes by using such an integrated approach requires a systems
biology strategy to understand the degree and complexity of plantmicrobe interactions …

Understanding and engineering beneficial plantmicrobe interactions: plant growth promotion in energy crops

K Farrar, D Bryant, N Cope‐Selby - Plant biotechnology journal, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
… interactions between the plant and its microbial symbionts requires a … of both plant and
microbe to beneficial plantmicrobe … ahead in the manipulation of plantmicrobe interactions, in …

Identification and rational design of novel antimicrobial peptides for plant protection

JF Marcos, A Munoz, E Pérez-Payá… - Annu. Rev …, 2008 - annualreviews.org
… were made to modulate the ratio of activity against microbes vs toxicity to plant cells. Two
sequence analogs of cecropin B with reduced toxicity to plant protoplasts, SB-37 and Shiva-1 (…

Microbial pathway engineering for industrial processes: evolution, combinatorial biosynthesis and rational design

L Rohlin, MK Oh, JC Liao - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2001 - Elsevier
… in tackling problems in microbial pathway engineering. Our … and plant metabolic engineering
are not included. In particular, this review focuses on selected areas in which both rational

Rational engineering of specialized metabolites in bacteria and fungi

RST Kamdem, O Ogbole, P Wafo, FU Philip… - Physical Sciences …, 2021 - degruyter.com
… in rain forest medicinal plants and microorganisms for new … changed the treatment of
overwhelming microbial ailments, and with … screening of medicinal plant and microbial extracts are …

The sum is greater than the parts: exploiting microbial communities to achieve complex functions

LS Zaramela, O Moyne, M Kumar, C Zuniga… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
… animals and plants depend on the metabolism of the microbial … Can we rationally design
communities and will these designs … , for example, different human subjects or different plants? …

Bioinoculants—natural biological resources for sustainable plant production

S Maitra, M Brestic, P Bhadra, T Shankar, S Praharaj… - Microorganisms, 2021 - mdpi.com
… Additionally, ammonium nitrate (NH 4 NO 3 ) released from chemical fertilizers negatively
influences soil-microbes and thus reduces symbiosis between plant and rhizospheric …

Rhizosphere interactions and the exploitation of microbial agents for the biological control of plant-parasitic nematodes

BR Kerry - Annual review of phytopathology, 2000 - annualreviews.org
plant-parasitic nematodes and their microbial natural enemies in the rhizosphere, highlights
the importance of the host plant … Such studies may lead to the rational selection of potential …

[HTML][HTML] When plants produce not enough or at all: metabolic engineering of flavonoids in microbial hosts

EA Trantas, MAG Koffas, P Xu… - Frontiers in plant science, 2015 - frontiersin.org
… in plants, have attracted the attention of both the industry and researchers involved in plant
science, … Microbial cell cultures can act as workhorse bio-factories by offering their metabolic …

Engineering microbial cell factories for the production of plant natural products: from design principles to industrial-scale production

X Liu, W Ding, H Jiang - Microbial cell factories, 2017 - Springer
… The other is based on semi-rational or rational design. … In microbes, excessive accumulation
of plant secondary metabolites … and plants can improve the production of PNPs in microbial