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ReviewAdvances in experimental medicine and biology2026

Adaptation to Climatic Change and Epigenetic Modifications of Soil Microbiome.

Christina Vaila, Vasiliki Nikou, Antonia Mataragka, Nikolaos Katsenios, Ioannis Zafeiriou, Kalliopi Kounani, Aspasia Efthimiadou, Eleni Papakonstantinou, Spyros Fountas, Dimitrios Vlachakis

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Review in Advances in experimental medicine and biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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10 authors.

Christina VailaLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Vasiliki NikouLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Antonia MataragkaLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Nikolaos KatseniosDepartment of Soil Science of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Lycovrisi, Greece.
Ioannis ZafeiriouDepartment of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Kalliopi KounaniDepartment of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece.
Aspasia EfthimiadouDepartment of Soil Science of Athens, Hellenic Agricultural Organization-Demeter, Institute of Soil and Water Resources, Lycovrisi, Greece.
Eleni PapakonstantinouLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. eleni@aua.gr.
Spyros FountasDepartment of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. sfountas@aua.gr.
Dimitrios VlachakisLaboratory of Genetics, Department of Biotechnology, School of Applied Biology and Biotechnology, Agricultural University of Athens, Athens, Greece. dimitris@aua.gr.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The rhizosphere microbiome, and especially bacteria, is essential for the plant's life and health, forming different mutual beneficial relationships. Throughout evolution, bacteria have adapted to various habitats by adjusting their genomes in order to fit the changing environmental conditions, resulting in the development of additional functional traits. Epigenetic modifications in their DNA play a crucial role in their ability to thrive in such conditions. Climate change is a serious phenomenon, challenging the plant's health and soil microbiome's assembly, and bacteria must enhance their stability by using resistance, resilience, and redundancy, mainly by stress-driven epigenetic modifications. In this review, recent studies have been investigated in order to record the most abundant bacterial genera in the soil's rhizosphere of 11 plants and at the same time to locate the role each one of them plays in plant's health, which has also been regulated by epigenetic mechanisms, leading to the inheritance of diverse phenotypes. As a result, we propose that this field needs further investigation, and future research should be focused on testing the alterations of the abundance and possible epigenetic modifications on the DNA of the main bacterial genera in soil microbiome, from areas affected by the climate change consequences, in order to conclude to potential solutions for assisting the soil microbiome and plants to survive after such catastrophic conditions.

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Adaptation, PhysiologicalBacteriaClimate ChangeEpigenesis, GeneticMicrobiotaSoil MicrobiologyPlantsRhizosphereClimate changeEpigeneticsFunctional traitsRhizosphere microbiomeSoil microbiome

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