Decoding the microbiome for sustainable agriculture

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Abstract

Root-associated microbiota profoundly affect crop health and productivity. Plants can selectively recruit beneficial microbes from the soil and actively balance microbe-triggered plant-growth promotion and stress tolerance enhancement. The cost associated with this is the root-mediated support of a certain number of specific microbes under nutrient limitation. Thus, it is important to consider the dynamic changes in microbial quantity when it comes to nutrient condition-induced root microbiome reassembly. Quantitative microbiome profiling (QMP) has recently emerged as a means to estimate the specific microbial load variation of a root microbiome (instead of the traditional approach quantifying relative microbial abundances) and data from the QMP approach can be more closely correlated with plant development and/or function. However, due to a lack of detailed-QMP data, how soil nutrient conditions affect quantitative changes in microbial assembly of the root-associated microbiome remains poorly understood. A recent study quantified the dynamics of the soybean root microbiome, under unbalanced fertilization, using QMP and provided data on the use of specific synthetic communities (SynComs) for sustaining crop productivity. In this editorial, we explore potential opportunities for utilizing QMP to decode the microbiome for sustainable agriculture.

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Sun, K., Zhang, W., Wang, X., & Dai, C. C. (2024, September 1). Decoding the microbiome for sustainable agriculture. ABIOTECH. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42994-024-00162-8

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