Core microbiomes for sustainable agroecosystems

Nature Plants, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 4(5), P. 247 - 257

Published: April 24, 2018

Language: Английский

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Microbiome-Mediated Stress Resistance in Plants

Trends in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 25(8), P. 733 - 743

Published: April 25, 2020

Language: Английский

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Common principles and best practices for engineering microbiomes

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 17(12), P. 725 - 741

Published: Sept. 23, 2019

Language: Английский

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Soil Aggregate Microbial Communities: Towards Understanding Microbiome Interactions at Biologically Relevant Scales

Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 85(14)

Published: May 13, 2019

Soils contain a tangle of minerals, water, nutrients, gases, plant roots, decaying organic matter, and microorganisms which work together to cycle nutrients support terrestrial growth. Most soil live in periodically interconnected communities closely associated with aggregates, i.e., small (<2 mm), strongly bound clusters minerals carbon that persist through mechanical disruptions wetting events.

Language: Английский

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The physical structure of soil: Determinant and consequence of trophic interactions

Soil Biology and Biochemistry, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 148, P. 107876 - 107876

Published: June 7, 2020

Trophic interactions play a vital role in soil functioning and are increasingly considered as important drivers of the microbiome biogeochemical cycles. In last decade, novel tools to decipher structure food webs have provided unprecedent advance describing complex trophic interactions. Yet, major challenge remains understand Evidence suggests that small scale physical may offer unifying framework for understanding nature patterns soils. Here, we review current knowledge how restrictions on organisms' ability sense access resources/prey inherent essentially shape We focus primarily organisms unable deform create pores themselves, such bacteria, fungi, protists, nematodes microarthropods, consider pore geometry, connectivity hydration status main descriptors structure. point appears mostly limit sensing accessibility resources/prey, with negative effects bottom up controls. The mechanisms (i) reduced transport molecules, notably volatiles, through matrix (ii) wide presence refuges leading size segregation consumer/predators sources/prey contrasting size. addition, variations water film is suggested central aspect driving encounter probability between consumers/predator source/prey hence locally decrease or increase top-down Constraints imposed by thought be diversity local community assemblage, favoring variety adaptations feed this dark labyrinth (food specialists/flexible/generalists) limiting competitive exclusion limited consumers. conclude possible future ways an interdisciplinary more quantitative research merging physics web ecology.

Language: Английский

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Soil and Human Health: Current Status and Future Needs

Air Soil and Water Research, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Jan. 1, 2020

Soil influences human health in a variety of ways, with being linked to the soil. Historically, emphasis has been placed on negative impacts that soils have health, including exposures toxins and pathogenic organisms or problems created by growing crops nutrient-deficient soils. However, there are number positive ways enhance from food production nutrient supply medications enhancement immune system. It is increasingly recognized soil an ecosystem myriad interconnected parts, each influencing other, when all necessary parts present functioning (ie, healthy), also benefits. Despite advances made, still many areas need additional investigation. We do not good understanding how chemical mixtures environment influence rule, exception. sparse information most chemicals react within chemically biologically active ecosystem, what those reactions mean for health. There better integrate ecology agronomic crop food/nutrition science, genetics bacterial fungal sequencing capabilities, metagenomics, subsequent analysis interpretation. While considerable work focused microbiology, macroorganisms received much less attention regarding links attention. Finally, pressing effectively communicate connections our broader society, as people cannot act they have. Multidisciplinary teams researchers, scientists, social others, will be essential move these issues forward.

Language: Английский

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Emergent Properties of Microbial Activity in Heterogeneous Soil Microenvironments: Different Research Approaches Are Slowly Converging, Yet Major Challenges Remain

Frontiers in Microbiology, Journal Year: 2018, Volume and Issue: 9

Published: Aug. 27, 2018

Over the last 60 years, soil microbiologists have accumulated a wealth of experimental data showing that usual bulk, macroscopic parameters used to characterize soils (e.g., granulometry, pH, organic matter and biomass contents) provide insufficient information describe quantitatively activity microorganisms some its outcomes, like emission greenhouse gases. Clearly, new, more appropriate are needed, which reflect better spatial heterogeneity at microscale (i.e., pore scale). For long time, spectroscopic microscopic tools were lacking quantify processes scale, but major technological advances over 15 years made suitable equipment available researchers. In this context, objective present article is review progress achieved date in significant research program has ensued. This can be rationalized as sequence steps, namely quantification modeling physical-, (bio)chemical-, microbiological properties soils, integration these different perspectives into unified theory, upscaling and, eventually, development new approaches measure characteristics. At stage, been on physical front, lesser extent (bio)chemical one well, both terms experiments modeling. microbial aspects, whereas lot work devoted bacterial fungal appropriateness model assumptions cannot readily assessed because relevant extremely scarce. overall move forward, it will crucial make sure components systems does not keep lagging behind Concerning subsequent steps program, very little various disciplinary occurred so far, result, researchers yet able tackle scaling up level. Many challenges, them daunting, remain path ahead.

Language: Английский

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Factors influencing aquatic and terrestrial bacterial community assembly

Environmental Microbiology Reports, Journal Year: 2019, Volume and Issue: 11(3), P. 306 - 315

Published: Jan. 9, 2019

During recent years, many studies have shown that different processes including drift, environmental selection and dispersal can be important for the assembly of bacterial communities in aquatic terrestrial ecosystems. However, we lack a conceptual overview about ecological context factors influence relative importance mechanisms determine their dynamics time space. Focusing on free-living, i.e., nonhost associated, communities, this minireview, therefore, summarizes conceptualizes findings from empirical how (i) factors, such as heterogeneity, disturbances, productivity trophic interactions; (ii) connectivity rates (iii) spatial scale, (iv) community properties traits (v) use taxonomic/phylogenetic or functional metrics processes. We find there is to-date little consistency among suggest future should now address (i)-(v) differ between habitats organisms this, turn, influences temporal spatial-scale dependency microorganisms.

Language: Английский

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From Microbiome to Traits: Designing Synthetic Microbial Communities for Improved Crop Resiliency

Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2020, Volume and Issue: 11

Published: Aug. 27, 2020

Plants teem with microorganisms, whose tremendous diversity and role in plant-microbe interactions are being increasingly explored. Microbial communities create a functional bond their hosts express beneficial traits capable of enhancing plant performance. Therefore, significant task microbiome research has been identifying novel microbial that can contribute to crop productivity, particularly under adverse environmental conditions. However, although knowledge exponentially accumulated recent years, few methods regarding the process designing inoculants for agriculture have presented. A recently introduced approach is use synthetic (SynComs), which involves applying concepts from both ecology genetics design inoculants. Here, we discuss how translate this rationale delivering stable effective by tailoring SynComs microorganisms possessing robust colonization, prevalence throughout development specific functions plants. Computational methods, including machine learning artificial intelligence, will leverage approaches screening microbes while improving determining best combination desired phenotype. We focus on advances deepen our critically prospect using resiliency against stressful

Language: Английский

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Fungi as mediators linking organisms and ecosystems

FEMS Microbiology Reviews, Journal Year: 2021, Volume and Issue: 46(2)

Published: Dec. 15, 2021

Fungi form a major and diverse component of most ecosystems on Earth. They are both micro macroorganisms with high varying functional diversity as well great variation in dispersal modes. With our growing knowledge microbial biogeography, it has become increasingly clear that fungal assembly patterns processes differ from other microorganisms such bacteria, but also plants. The success fungi organisms their influence the environment lies ability to span multiple dimensions time, space, biological interactions, is not rivalled by organism groups. There evidence mediate links between different ecosystems, potential affect macroecology evolution those organisms. This suggests interactions an ecological driving force, interconnecting levels organisation hosts, competitors, antagonists ecosystem functioning. Here we review these emerging lines focusing dynamics groups across various ecosystems. We conclude mediating role through complex dynamic underlie importance ubiquity Earth's

Language: Английский

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