ReviewiScience2022
The legacy of microbial inoculants in agroecosystems and potential for tackling climate change challenges.
Review in iScience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 35 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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35 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Meta-analysis reveals the effects of microbial inoculants on the biomass and diversity of soil microbial communities.Nature ecology & evolution · 2024Pooled it
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- Soil Microbiome for Climate Smart Agriculture in Legumes: A Review.Current microbiology · 2026Review
- Genetically Modified Microorganisms: Risks and Regulatory Considerations for Human and Environmental Health.Microorganisms · 2026Review
- Integrated genome mining and phytohormone profiling of six plant growth-promoting elite bacterial strains.Archives of microbiology · 2026Article
- Plant recognition by Trichoderma Harzianum elicits upregulation of a novel secondary metabolite cluster required for colonization.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- A conserved bacterial signature characterizes plant microbiome responses to drought.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Article
- Plant-soil-microbiome interactions: mechanisms, advances, and challenges in sustainable agriculture and healthy agroecosystems.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Emerging roles of PGPR in fruit production systems: from growth promotion to system-level regulation, a review.Frontiers in microbiology · 2026Review
- Ancient Microbiomes as Mirrored by DNA Extracted From Century-Old Herbarium Plants and Associated Soil.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Recent progress in microbial production and consumption of nitrous oxide in agricultural soils.World journal of microbiology & biotechnology · 2025Review
- Modulating the Plant Microbiome: Effects of Seed Inoculation with Endophytic Bacteria on Microbial Diversity and Growth Enhancement in Pea Plants.Microorganisms · 2025Article
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- Bioinoculant-induced plant resistance is modulated by interactions with resident soil microbes.Environmental microbiome · 2025Article
- Microbial Inoculants in Sustainable Agriculture: Advancements, Challenges, and Future Directions.Plants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Roles of microbial interactions in determining the establishment and function of synthetic consortium inoculants for soil applications.The ISME journal · 2025Article
- The dual nature of plant growth-promoting bacteria: Benefits, risks, and pathways to sustainable deployment.Current research in microbial sciences · 2025Review
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Abstract
Microbial inoculations contribute to reducing agricultural systems' environmental footprint by supporting sustainable production and regulating climate change. However, the indirect and cascading effects of microbial inoculants through the reshaping of soil microbiome are largely overlooked. By discussing the underlying mechanisms of plant- and soil-based microbial inoculants, we suggest that a key challenge in microbial inoculation is to understand their legacy on indigenous microbial communities and the corresponding impacts on agroecosystem functions and services relevant to climate change. We explain how these legacy effects on the soil microbiome can be understood by building on the mechanisms driving microbial invasions and placing inoculation into the context of ecological succession and community assembly. Overall, we advocate that generalizing field trials to systematically test inoculants' effectiveness and developing knowledge anchored in the scientific field of biological/microbial invasion are two essential requirements for applying microbial inoculants in agricultural ecosystems to tackle climate change challenges.
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