Agroecological crop protection for sustainable agriculture

JP Deguine, JN Aubertot, S Bellon, F Côte… - Advances in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Crop losses from pests threaten global food security and safety. In the last six decades, pest
control using chemical pesticides has resulted in important yield gains per unit area …

Endophytic microbes and their potential applications in crop management

JF White, KL Kingsley, Q Zhang… - Pest management …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endophytes are microbes (mostly bacteria and fungi) present asymptomatically in plants.
Endophytic microbes are often functional in that they may carry nutrients from the soil into …

Global challenges facing plant pathology: multidisciplinary approaches to meet the food security and environmental challenges in the mid-twenty-first century

M Jeger, R Beresford, C Bock, N Brown, A Fox… - CABI Agriculture and …, 2021 - Springer
The discipline of plant pathology has an expanding remit requiring a multi-faceted,
interdisciplinary approach to capture the complexity of interactions for any given disease …

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 …

Towards sustainable agriculture: rhizosphere microbiome engineering

S Bano, X Wu, X Zhang - Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, 2021 - Springer
Soil microbiomes are extremely complex, with dense networks of interconnected microbial
species underpinning vital functions for the ecosystem. In advanced agricultural research …

Network structure of resource use and niche overlap within the endophytic microbiome

M Michalska-Smith, Z Song, SA Spawn-Lee… - The ISME …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Endophytes often have dramatic effects on their host plants. Characterizing the relationships
among members of these communities has focused on identifying the effects of single …

It takes three to tango: the importance of microbes, host plant, and soil management to elucidate manipulation strategies for the plant microbiome

M Tosi, EK Mitter, J Gaiero… - Canadian Journal of …, 2020 - cdnsciencepub.com
The world's population is expected to grow to almost 10 billion by 2050, placing
unprecedented demands on agriculture and natural resources. The risk in food security is …

PLaBAse: A comprehensive web resource for analyzing the plant growth-promoting potential of plant-associated bacteria

S Patz, A Gautam, M Becker, S Ruppel… - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Plant-beneficial microorganisms are gaining importance for sustainable plant production
and phytosanitary practices. Yet there is a lack of computational approaches targeting …

Theory of microbial coexistence in promoting soil–plant ecosystem health

N Zhang, N Nunan, PR Hirsch, B Sun, J Zhou… - Biology and Fertility of …, 2021 - Springer
A healthy soil plant continuum is critical for maintaining agroecosystem functions and
ensuring food security, which is the basis of sustainable agricultural development. Diverse …

Plant compartments and developmental stages modulate the balance between niche-based and neutral processes in soybean microbiome

I Moroenyane, L Mendes, J Tremblay, B Tripathi… - Microbial ecology, 2021 - Springer
Understanding the dynamics of plant-associated microbial communities within agriculture is
well documented. However, the ecological processes that assemble the plant microbiome …