Emerging pathways for engineering the rhizosphere microbiome for optimal plant health

S Yang, H Liu, P Xie, T Wen, Q Shen… - Journal of Agricultural …, 2023 - ACS Publications
The increasing impacts of global climate change on crop performance pose a significant
threat to global food security. The rhizosphere microbiomes intimately interact with the plant …

Linking plant functional genes to rhizosphere microbes: a review

Q Liu, L Cheng, H Nian, J Jin… - Plant biotechnology …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The importance of rhizomicrobiome in plant development, nutrition acquisition and stress
tolerance is unquestionable. Relevant plant genes corresponding to the above functions …

Root microbiota confers rice resistance to aluminium toxicity and phosphorus deficiency in acidic soils

C Liu, M Jiang, MM Yuan, E Wang, Y Bai, TW Crowther… - Nature Food, 2023 - nature.com
Aluminium (Al) toxicity impedes crop growth in acidic soils and is considered the second
largest abiotic stress after drought for crops worldwide. Despite remarkable progress in …

[HTML][HTML] Microbiome rescue: directing resilience of environmental microbial communities

A Shade - Current Opinion in Microbiology, 2023 - Elsevier
Highlights•Microbiome management can maintain functions for systems facing climate
change.•Microbiome rescue reintroduces functional members lost to disturbance.•Rescue …

[HTML][HTML] Engineering the crop microbiota through host genetics

C Escudero-Martinez, D Bulgarelli - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
The microbiota populating the plant–soil continuum defines an untapped resource for
sustainable crop production. The host plant is a driver for the taxonomic composition and …

Biological roles of soil microbial consortium on promoting safe crop production in heavy metal (loid) contaminated soil: a systematic review

N Wang, X Wang, L Chen, H Liu, Y Wu… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract Heavy metal (loid)(HM) pollution of agricultural soils is a growing global
environmental concern that affects planetary health. Numerous studies have shown that soil …

Strategies for breeding crops for future environments

J Salse, RL Barnard, C Veneault-Fourrey… - Trends in Plant …, 2023 - cell.com
The green revolution successfully increased agricultural output in the early 1960s by relying
primarily on three pillars: plant breeding, irrigation, and chemical fertilization. Today, the …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated nematode management in a world in transition: constraints, policy, processes, and technologies for the future

RA Sikora, J Helder, LPG Molendijk… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Plant-parasitic nematodes are one of the most insidious pests limiting agricultural
production, parasitizing mostly belowground and occasionally aboveground plant parts …

Unraveling plant–microbe interactions: can integrated omics approaches offer concrete answers?

RN Kimotho, S Maina - Journal of Experimental Botany, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Advances in high throughput omics techniques provide avenues to decipher plant
microbiomes. However, there is limited information on how integrated informatics can help …

[HTML][HTML] Tea-soybean intercropping improves tea quality and nutrition uptake by inducing changes of rhizosphere bacterial communities

L Sun, X Dong, Y Wang, G Maker, M Agarwal, Z Ding - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The positive aspects of the tea plant/legume intercropping system draw attention to the
Chinese tea industry for its benefit for soil fertility improvement with low fertilizer input …