ArticleMicrobial biotechnology2017
Tiny Microbes, Big Yields: enhancing food crop production with biological solutions.
Article in Microbial biotechnology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 36 papers.
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- Microbiomes in action: multifaceted benefits and challenges across academic disciplines.Frontiers in microbiology · 2025Review
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- Microbe-Friendly Plants Enable Beneficial Interactions with Soil Rhizosphere Bacteria by Lowering Their Defense Responses.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Microbiome-Mediated Strategies to Manage Major Soil-Borne Diseases of Tomato.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Interactions with fungi vary amongAoB PLANTS · 2023Article
- Climate change impacts on plant pathogens, food security and paths forward.Nature reviews. Microbiology · 2023Review
- The Microbial Connection to Sustainable Agriculture.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Weaponising microbes for peace.Microbial biotechnology · 2023Article
- On-farm Production of Microbial Entomopathogens for use in Agriculture: Brazil as a Case Study.Neotropical entomology · 2023Review
- PGPR: the treasure of multifarious beneficial microorganisms for nutrient mobilization, pest biocontrol and plant growth promotion in field crops.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2023Review
- Using MRI to Study High Pressure Assisted Nutrient Infusion.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Biofertilizers can enhance nitrogen use efficiency of sugarcane.Environmental microbiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Plant-associated microbiomes have tremendous potential to improve plant resilience and yields in farming systems. There is increasing evidence that biological technologies that use microbes or their metabolites can enhance nutrient uptake and yield, control pests and mitigate plant stress responses. However, to fully realize the potential of microbial technology, their efficacy and consistency under the broad range of real-world conditions need to be improved. While the optimization of microbial biofertilizers and biopesticides is advancing rapidly to enable use in various soils, crop varieties and environments, crop breeding programmes have yet to incorporate the selection of beneficial plant-microbe interactions to breed 'microbe-optimized plants'. Emerging efforts exploring microbiome engineering could lead to microbial consortia that are better suited to support plants. The combination of all three approaches could be integrated to achieve maximum benefits and significantly improved crop yields to address food security.
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