Unearthing soil-plant-microbiota crosstalk: Looking back to move forward DOI Creative Commons
Marco Antonio Giovannetti, Alessandra Salvioli di Fossalunga, Ioannis A. Stringlis

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Frontiers in Plant Science, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13

Published: Jan. 24, 2023

The soil is vital for life on Earth and its biodiversity. However, being a non-renewable threatened resource, preserving quality crucial to maintain range of ecosystem services critical ecological balances, food production human health. In an agricultural context, often perceived as the ability support field production, thus fertility are strictly interconnected. concept of, well ways assess, has undergone big changes over years. Crop performance been historically used indicator fertility. Then, analysis physico-chemical parameters routinely assess quality. Today it becoming evident that must be evaluated by combining refer both biological levels. can challenging find adequate indexes evaluating predictive easy measure in situ . An ideal assessment method should flexible, sensitive enough detect functions, management climate, allow comparability among sites. this review, we discuss current status indicators existing databases harmonized, open-access topsoil data. We also explore connections between biotic abiotic features crop context. Finally, based knowledge technical advancements, argue use plant health traits represents powerful way properties. These serve proxies different characterize at microbiological level, including quality, composition microbial communities.

Language: Английский

Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward DOI Open Access
Brajesh K. Singh, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Eleonora Egidi

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Nature Reviews Microbiology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 21(10), P. 640 - 656

Published: May 2, 2023

Language: Английский

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Soil microbiomes and one health DOI
Samiran Banerjee, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Journal Year: 2022, Volume and Issue: 21(1), P. 6 - 20

Published: Aug. 23, 2022

Language: Английский

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Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi in Regulating Growth, Enhancing Productivity, and Potentially Influencing Ecosystems under Abiotic and Biotic Stresses DOI Creative Commons
Abdul Wahab, Murad Muhammad, Asma Munir

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Plants, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 12(17), P. 3102 - 3102

Published: Aug. 29, 2023

Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) form symbiotic relationships with the roots of nearly all land-dwelling plants, increasing growth and productivity, especially during abiotic stress. AMF improves plant development by improving nutrient acquisition, such as phosphorus, water, mineral uptake. tolerance resilience to stressors drought, salt, heavy metal toxicity. These benefits come from arbuscular interface, which lets fungal partners exchange nutrients, signalling molecules, protective chemical compounds. Plants' antioxidant defence systems, osmotic adjustment, hormone regulation are also affected infestation. responses promote performance, photosynthetic efficiency, biomass production in stress conditions. As a result its positive effects on soil structure, cycling, carbon sequestration, contributes maintenance resilient ecosystems. The AMFs ecological stability species- environment-specific. AMF's growth-regulating, productivity-enhancing role alleviation under is reviewed. More research needed understand molecular mechanisms that drive AMF-plant interactions their stresses. triggers plants' morphological, physiological, Water development, improved symbiosis. In colonization modulates defense mechanisms, hormonal regulation. circumstances. AMF-mediated enhanced essential oils (EOs), superoxide dismutase (SOD), peroxidase (POD), ascorbate (APX), hydrogen peroxide (H2O2), malondialdehyde (MDA), phosphorus (P). Understanding how increases adaptation reduces will help sustain agriculture, ecosystem management, climate change mitigation. have gained prominence agriculture due multifaceted roles promoting health productivity. This review delves into influences absorption, challenging environmental We further explore extent bolsters

Language: Английский

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Regenerative Agriculture—A Literature Review on the Practices and Mechanisms Used to Improve Soil Health DOI Open Access
Ravjit Khangura,

David Ferris,

Cameron Wagg

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Sustainability, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 15(3), P. 2338 - 2338

Published: Jan. 27, 2023

Conventional farming practices can lead to soil degradation and a decline in productivity. Regenerative agriculture (RA) is purported by advocates as solution these issues that focuses on health carbon sequestration. The fundamental principles of RA are keep the covered, minimise disturbance, preserve living roots year round, increase species diversity, integrate livestock, limit or eliminate use synthetic compounds (such herbicides fertilisers). overall objectives rejuvenate land provide environmental, economic, social benefits wider community. Despite RA, vast majority growers reluctant adopt due lack empirical evidence claimed profitability. We examined reported mechanisms associated with against available scientific data. literature suggests agricultural such minimum tillage, residue retention, cover cropping improve carbon, crop yield, certain climatic zones types. Excessive chemicals biodiversity loss ecosystem degradation. Combining livestock agroforestry same landscape several co-benefits. However, vary among different agroecosystems may not necessarily be applicable across multiple agroecological regions. Our recommendation implement rigorous long-term system trials compare conventional order build knowledge regional scales. This will policy-makers an base from which make informed decisions about adopting realise their economic achieve resilience climate change.

Language: Английский

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Soil microbiome indicators can predict crop growth response to large-scale inoculation with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi DOI Creative Commons
Stefanie Lutz, Natacha Bodenhausen, Julia Heß

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Nature Microbiology, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 8(12), P. 2277 - 2289

Published: Nov. 29, 2023

Alternative solutions to mineral fertilizers and pesticides that reduce the environmental impact of agriculture are urgently needed. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF) can enhance plant nutrient uptake stress; yet, large-scale field inoculation trials with AMF missing, so far, results remain unpredictable. We conducted on-farm experiments in 54 fields Switzerland quantified effects on maize growth. Growth response was highly variable, ranging from -12% +40%. With few soil parameters mainly microbiome indicators, we could successfully predict 86% variation growth inoculation. The abundance pathogenic fungi, rather than availability, best predicted (33%) success. Our indicate indicators offer a sustainable biotechnological perspective success at beginning growing season. This predictability increases profitability engineering as tool for agricultural management.

Language: Английский

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Increasing the number of stressors reduces soil ecosystem services worldwide DOI Creative Commons
Matthias C. Rillig, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden, Miguel Berdugo

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Nature Climate Change, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 13(5), P. 478 - 483

Published: March 16, 2023

Increasing the number of environmental stressors could decrease ecosystem functioning in soils. Yet this relationship has never been globally assessed outside laboratory experiments. Here, using two independent global standardized field surveys, and a range natural human factors, we test between exceeding different critical thresholds maintenance multiple services across biomes. Our analysis shows that, stressors, from medium levels (>50%), negatively significantly correlates with impacts on services, that crossing high-level threshold (over 75% maximum observed levels), reduces soil biodiversity globally. The >75% was consistently seen as an important predictor therefore improving prediction functioning. findings highlight need to reduce dimensionality footprint ecosystems conserve function.

Language: Английский

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The mycorrhizal symbiosis: research frontiers in genomics, ecology, and agricultural application DOI Open Access
Francis Martin, Marcel G. A. van der Heijden

New Phytologist, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 242(4), P. 1486 - 1506

Published: Jan. 31, 2024

Summary Mycorrhizal symbioses between plants and fungi are vital for the soil structure, nutrient cycling, plant diversity, ecosystem sustainability. More than 250 000 species associated with mycorrhizal fungi. Recent advances in genomics related approaches have revolutionized our understanding of biology ecology associations. The genomes 250+ been released hundreds genes that play pivotal roles regulating symbiosis development metabolism characterized. rDNA metabarcoding metatranscriptomics provide novel insights into ecological cues driving communities functions expressed by these associations, linking to traits such as acquisition organic matter decomposition. Here, we review genomic studies revealed involved uptake development, discuss adaptations fundamental evolution lifestyles. We also evaluated services provided networks how hold promise sustainable agriculture forestry enhancing stress tolerance. Overall, unraveling intricate dynamics is paramount promoting sustainability addressing current pressing environmental concerns. This ends major frontiers further research.

Language: Английский

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The impact of multifactorial stress combination on plants, crops, and ecosystems: how should we prepare for what comes next? DOI
Sara I. Zandalinas, María Ángeles Peláez‐Vico, Ranjita Sinha

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The Plant Journal, Journal Year: 2023, Volume and Issue: 117(6), P. 1800 - 1814

Published: Nov. 23, 2023

The complexity of environmental conditions encountered by plants in the field, or nature, is gradually increasing due to anthropogenic activities that promote global warming, climate change, and increased levels pollutants. While past it seemed sufficient study how acclimate one even two different stresses affecting them simultaneously, complex developing on our planet necessitate a new approach studying stress plants: Acclimation multiple occurring concurrently consecutively (termed, multifactorial combination [MFSC]). In an initial plant response MFSC, conducted with Arabidopsis thaliana seedlings subjected MFSC six abiotic stresses, was found increase number simultaneously impacting plant, growth survival declined, if effects each involved such minimal insignificant. three recent studies, crop plants, have similar commercial rice cultivar, maize hybrid, tomato, soybean, causing significant reductions growth, biomass, physiological parameters, and/or yield traits. As are worsening, as well becoming more complex, addressing its agriculture ecosystems worldwide becomes high priority. this review, we address crops, agriculture, worldwide, highlight potential avenues enhance resilience crops MFSC.

Language: Английский

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Disentangling the contributions of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi to soil multifunctionality DOI

Fayuan WANG,

Zed RENGEL

Pedosphere, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 34(2), P. 269 - 278

Published: Jan. 3, 2024

Language: Английский

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Biotic homogenization, lower soil fungal diversity and fewer rare taxa in arable soils across Europe DOI Creative Commons
Samiran Banerjee, Cheng Zhao, Gina Garland

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Nature Communications, Journal Year: 2024, Volume and Issue: 15(1)

Published: Jan. 6, 2024

Abstract Soil fungi are a key constituent of global biodiversity and play pivotal role in agroecosystems. How arable farming affects soil fungal biogeography whether it has disproportional impact on rare taxa is poorly understood. Here, we used the high-resolution PacBio Sequel targeting entire ITS region to investigate distribution 217 sites across 3000 km gradient Europe. We found consistently lower diversity lands than grasslands, with geographic locations significantly impacting community structures. Prevalent groups became even more abundant, whereas fewer or absent lands, suggesting biotic homogenization due farming. The were narrowly distributed common grasslands. Our findings suggest that disproportionally affected by farming, sustainable practices should protect ecosystem services they support.

Language: Английский

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