ReviewFrontiers in microbiology2020
Microbe to Microbiome: A Paradigm Shift in the Application of Microorganisms for Sustainable Agriculture.
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63 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 207 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Rhizosphere Bacteria in Plant Growth Promotion, Biocontrol, and Bioremediation of Contaminated Sites: A Comprehensive Review of Effects and Mechanisms.International journal of molecular sciences · 2021Pooled it
- Engineering Plant-Associated Soil Microbiomes for Sustainable and Climate-Resilient Agriculture: Mechanisms, Technologies, and Applications.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Bacillus inoculation drives fine-scale taxonomic shifts in the bacterial communities of saline-alkaline wheat rhizosphere soil.Environmental microbiome · 2026Article
- Microbial co-inoculation and extracellular vesicles: new frontiers for soybean productivity.Antonie van Leeuwenhoek · 2026Review
- Taxonomic Restructuring of Rhizosphere Guilds is Driven By Agricultural Management and Scion Genotype in Apple.Microbial ecology · 2026Article
- Impact of microbial consortia and fertilization regimes on the soil microbiome in maize field trials.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Next-generation soil monitoring: linking metagenomics, biosensors, and ecological modeling for sustainable agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Microbial Biotechnology in Agriculture.Progress in molecular and subcellular biology · 2026Review
- Synthetic microbiomes in bioengineered rhizospheres: new frontiers for climate-resilient agriculture.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Fecal microbiota and microbial community transplantation:Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Key Challenges in Plant Microbiome Research in the Next Decade.Microorganisms · 2025Review
- Harnessing Beneficial Microbes and Sensor Technologies for Sustainable Smart Agriculture.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Seasonal Differences in Effects of Microbial Communities on Duckweed Traits.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Impact ofPathogens (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Introducing the UK Crop Microbiome Cryobank data resource, AgMicrobiomeBase, with case studies and methods on metabarcoding analyses.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Machine learning-based mapping of Acidobacteriota and Planctomycetota using 16 S rRNA gene metabarcoding data across soils in Russia.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Exploring genetic diversity and genomic insights of Bacillus subtilis isolates from cassava rhizosphere using molecular barcoding and whole genome sequencing.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Microbial Interactions Influence the Chemical Defense of Wild and Cultivated Tomato Species.Journal of chemical ecology · 2025Article
- Exploring the plant growth promoting attributes of pteridophyte-associated microbiome for agricultural sustainability.Physiology and molecular biology of plants : an international journal of functional plant biology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Light, water and healthy soil are three essential natural resources required for agricultural productivity. Industrialization of agriculture has resulted in intensification of cropping practices using enormous amounts of chemical pesticides and fertilizers that damage these natural resources. Therefore, there is a need to embrace agriculture practices that do not depend on greater use of fertilizers and water to meet the growing demand of global food requirements. Plants and soil harbor millions of microorganisms, which collectively form a microbial community known as the microbiome. An effective microbiome can offer benefits to its host, including plant growth promotion, nutrient use efficiency, and control of pests and phytopathogens. Therefore, there is an immediate need to bring functional potential of plant-associated microbiome and its innovation into crop production. In addition to that, new scientific methodologies that can track the nutrient flux through the plant, its resident microbiome and surrounding soil, will offer new opportunities for the design of more efficient microbial consortia design. It is now increasingly acknowledged that the diversity of a microbial inoculum is as important as its plant growth promoting ability. Not surprisingly, outcomes from such plant and soil microbiome studies have resulted in a paradigm shift away from single, specific soil microbes to a more holistic microbiome approach for enhancing crop productivity and the restoration of soil health. Herein, we have reviewed this paradigm shift and discussed various aspects of benign microbiome-based approaches for sustainable agriculture.
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