Article
Microbiology
Manoj Kumar Solanki, Naveen Chandra Joshi, Prashant Kumar Singh, Sandeep Kumar Singh, Gustavo Santoyo, Lucas Carvalho Basilio de Azevedo, Ajay Kumar
Summary: The rhizosphere microbiome plays a crucial role in plant growth and health. Rhizosphere engineering can be used to modify the microbiome and improve plant productivity and resilience.
MICROBIOLOGICAL RESEARCH
(2024)
Editorial Material
Microbiology
Lanxiang Wang, Moxian Chen, Pui-Ying Lam, Francisco Dini-Andreote, Lei Dai, Zhong Wei
Summary: This comprehensive review discusses the multiple roles of flavonoids in mediating plant-microbe interactions, including their synthesis, transport, and exudation in plants, the importance of flavonoids in regulating plant-microbe interactions, and how flavonoids influence the overall community assembly of plant-root microbiomes. The review also highlights potential knowledge gaps in understanding how flavonoids determine the interactions between plants and commensal microbes, advocating for further research in this area for innovative strategies to manipulate plant-microbiome composition.
Article
Plant Sciences
Rouhallah Sharifi, Choong-Min Ryu
Summary: The plant-associated microbial community plays an important role in plant-plant communications, allowing for wired and wireless communication between plants. These communication mechanisms help plants adapt to their environments and improve resilience against stresses.
PLANT CELL AND ENVIRONMENT
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Muhammad Noman, Temoor Ahmed, Usman Ijaz, Muhammad Shahid, Azizullah, Dayong Li, Irfan Manzoor, Fengming Song
Summary: Local microbial communities play a crucial role in enhancing plant health by providing nutrients, promoting growth, and enhancing resistance to diseases and stress. Microbiome engineering is an emerging biotechnological strategy that can improve crop yield and resilience, helping to address various environmental constraints.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR SCIENCES
(2021)
Article
Biology
Michael A. Meier, Gen Xu, Martha G. Lopez-Guerrero, Guangyong Li, Christine Smith, Brandi Sigmon, Joshua R. Herr, James R. Alfano, Yufeng Ge, James C. Schnable, Jinliang Yang
Summary: The composition of the rhizobiome is influenced by host plant genetics, with a greater impact under low nitrogen conditions. This study also identifies genetic markers associated with the abundance of specific microbial groups in the maize rhizobiome and their correlation with plant vigor.
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Kayla M. Clouse, Maggie R. Wagner
Summary: The growing human population and climate crisis call for new tools for sustainable agriculture, with a focus on manipulating agricultural microbiomes due to their profound effects on host health. Genetic manipulation of host plants is proposed as another method for microbiome manipulation, alongside current methods like inoculation of beneficial organisms or engineered communities, which have faced challenges in establishment in complex farm environments. Opportunities lie in improving plant-microbiome interactions through host genetic control, but challenges remain.
FRONTIERS IN BIOENGINEERING AND BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Chen Chen, Miao Wang, Jingzhi Zhu, Yongwei Tang, Hanchao Zhang, Qiming Zhao, Minyu Jing, Yahua Chen, Xihui Xu, Jiandong Jiang, Zhenguo Shen
Summary: This study identifies a new mechanism in which plant growth-promoting bacteria (PGPB) affect DNA methylation in roots to promote plant growth. The results show that the assembly of the rhizosphere microbiome is driven by plant development, and DNA methylation modifications in roots remain functional even after the elimination of the inoculum from the microbiome.
Review
Biology
Tyler J. Carrier, Manuel Maldonado, Lara Schmittmann, Lucia Pita, Thomas C. G. Bosch, Ute Hentschel
Summary: This article integrates embryology and microbiology to review the transmission of symbiotic microorganisms in marine sponges. The study finds that vertical transmission is common but not universal, and that transmission occurs during specific developmental stages. Additionally, the microbial abundance in sponges influences the properties of the developmental microbiome.
Review
Agriculture, Multidisciplinary
Shengdie Yang, Hongwei Liu, Penghao Xie, Tao Wen, Qirong Shen, Jun Yuan
Summary: The increasing impacts of global climate change on crop performance pose a significant threat to global food security. The rhizosphere microbiomes can facilitate plants in growth promotion and stress resistance. This review focuses on approaches for harnessing the rhizosphere microbiomes to produce beneficial effects toward enhanced crop productivity, including the use of organic and inorganic amendments, and microbial inoculants. Emerging methods, such as synthetic microbial consortia, host-mediated microbiome engineering, prebiotics made from specific plant root exudates, and crop breeding, are highlighted.
JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL AND FOOD CHEMISTRY
(2023)
Review
Biotechnology & Applied Microbiology
Cecilia Taule, Patricia Vaz-Jauri, Federico Battistoni
Summary: The plant holobiont consists of the plant, its microbiota, and other organisms that live in and on it. Among the plant microbiota, bacterial endophytes can invade plant tissues without causing symptoms of disease. The interaction between endophytic bacterial microbiota and their plant host influences their fitness and depends on various factors.
WORLD JOURNAL OF MICROBIOLOGY & BIOTECHNOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Microbiology
Dana L. Carper, Manasa R. Appidi, Sameer Mudbhari, Him K. Shrestha, Robert L. Hettich, Paul E. Abraham
Summary: Microorganisms play a crucial role in plant sustainability and productivity. Recent research on plant holobiont theory and microbial invasion ecology has revolutionized our understanding of plant-microbe interactions. Omic technologies, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics, have greatly advanced our knowledge in this field, although there are still limitations to overcome.
Review
Microbiology
Inmyoung Park, Young-Su Seo, Mohamed Mannaa
Summary: The viable community of microorganisms in the rhizosphere significantly affects plant development and vitality. This review discusses the factors that influence the composition and function of the rhizosphere microbiome and how they facilitate the recruitment of specific microbes by the host plant to support plant growth and resilience under stress. The review also explores current methods for manipulating the rhizosphere microbiome and highlights promising techniques and avenues for future research.
FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY
(2023)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Natsuki Omae, Kenichi Tsuda
Summary: Abiotic stress negatively affects plant growth, posing a threat to agriculture and food security. The plant microbiota, which is associated with plants, can enhance plant growth and abiotic stress tolerance, offering potential for increased crop production. This review summarizes recent progress on the impact of abiotic stress on plants, microbiota, and plant-microbe interactions, as well as the utilization of plant microbiota in agriculture under abiotic stress conditions.
MOLECULAR PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Rouhallah Sharifi, Je-Seung Jeon, Choong-Min Ryu
Summary: Volatile compounds in the rhizosphere play crucial roles in biological communications and interactions, affecting the behavior of plants and microbes. Understanding and studying these volatile emissions is essential for improving plant growth and health, as well as for shaping the microbial community in the rhizosphere.
JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY
(2022)
Review
Plant Sciences
Rupali Gupta, Gautam Anand, Rajeeva Gaur, Dinesh Yadav
Summary: Plant-microbiome interactions play a significant role in nutrient acquisition and defense mechanisms of the host plant. Understanding and utilizing plant microbiomes can have implications for future agricultural applications.
PHYSIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF PLANTS
(2021)