Dissection of rhizosphere microbiome and exploiting strategies for sustainable agriculture

W Xun, Y Liu, A Ma, H Yan, Y Miao, J Shao… - New …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The rhizosphere microbiome plays critical roles in plant growth and provides promising
solutions for sustainable agriculture. While the rhizosphere microbiome frequently fluctuates …

Biological nitrogen fixation in cereal crops: Progress, strategies, and perspectives

K Guo, J Yang, N Yu, L Luo, E Wang - Plant Communications, 2023 - cell.com
Nitrogen is abundant in the atmosphere but is generally the most limiting nutrient for plants.
The inability of many crop plants, such as cereals, to directly utilize freely available …

Microbiome homeostasis on rice leaves is regulated by a precursor molecule of lignin biosynthesis

P Su, H Kang, Q Peng, WA Wicaksono, G Berg… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
In terrestrial ecosystems, plant leaves provide the largest biological habitat for highly diverse
microbial communities, known as the phyllosphere microbiota. However, the underlying …

The microbial connection to sustainable agriculture

K Nadarajah, NSN Abdul Rahman - Plants, 2023 - mdpi.com
Microorganisms are an important element in modeling sustainable agriculture. Their role in
soil fertility and health is crucial in maintaining plants' growth, development, and yield …

Engineering agricultural soil microbiomes and predicting plant phenotypes

CA Berruto, GS Demirer - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) can improve crop yields, nutrient use
efficiency, plant tolerance to stressors, and confer benefits to future generations of crops …

Heritable microbiome variation is correlated with source environment in locally adapted maize varieties

X He, D Wang, Y Jiang, M Li, M Delgado-Baquerizo… - Nature Plants, 2024 - nature.com
Beneficial interactions with microorganisms are pivotal for crop performance and resilience.
However, it remains unclear how heritable the microbiome is with respect to the host plant …

Continental-scale insights into the soil microbial co-occurrence networks of Australia and their environmental drivers

H Gui, M Breed, Y Li, Q Xu, J Yang… - Soil Biology and …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil microbial communities and their interactions play a critical role in sha** the functions
of ecosystems at regional and continental scales. In recent years, co-occurrence network …

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 …

Rational management of the plant microbiome for the Second Green Revolution

X Li, X Zheng, N Yadav, S Saha, ES Salama, X Li… - Plant …, 2024 - cell.com
Abstract The Green Revolution of the mid-20th century transformed agriculture worldwide
and has resulted in environmental challenges. A new approach, the Second Green …

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 …