Food security and safety are important issues due to the expanding human population. As sessile organisms, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to cope with pathogens. Plant growth and development require the acquisition and transport of nutrients that mediate cellular signaling in the plant and activate the expression of growth-promoting and/or anti-pathogen genes. Nutrients, including sugars and amino acids, are necessary for high-yield crop production but are also tightly associated with plant-microbe interactions. Microbes utilize several strategies to adapt to plants, including enhanced root cell surface for absorbing nutrients, competing for environmental nutrients, hijacking plant nutrients, and altering cellular nutrient transport and signaling. These beneficial or harmful effects lead to a shifting of the plant microbiome. Therefore, analyzing the role that nutrients play in plant defense will be of critical importance to boost the efficacy of fertilization.
Over the past 30 years, fundamental knowledge of plant-microbe interactions has greatly contributed to the crop yield and food supply. However, the mechanisms of nutrient availability and nutrient-mediated signaling adaptation in plant-microbe interactions remain unknown and deciphering these issues will be essential for optimizing crop yield and give novel insights into nutrient competition and utilization.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Opinion articles, and Research articles providing new insights into how nutrient transporters and signaling or the microbiome regulate plant-microbe interactions:
• Sugar transport (SWEET, STP, and SUT family transporters) and signaling in plant-microbe interactions
• Amino acids transport (UmamiT transporter) and signaling in plant-microbe interactions.
Please note that descriptive studies, including those using 'omics approaches, defining gene families, or descriptive collections of transcripts, proteins, or metabolites will not be considered for review unless they are expanded and provide mechanistic and/or physiological insights into the gene/pathway function in plant-microbe interactions.
Food security and safety are important issues due to the expanding human population. As sessile organisms, plants have evolved sophisticated mechanisms to cope with pathogens. Plant growth and development require the acquisition and transport of nutrients that mediate cellular signaling in the plant and activate the expression of growth-promoting and/or anti-pathogen genes. Nutrients, including sugars and amino acids, are necessary for high-yield crop production but are also tightly associated with plant-microbe interactions. Microbes utilize several strategies to adapt to plants, including enhanced root cell surface for absorbing nutrients, competing for environmental nutrients, hijacking plant nutrients, and altering cellular nutrient transport and signaling. These beneficial or harmful effects lead to a shifting of the plant microbiome. Therefore, analyzing the role that nutrients play in plant defense will be of critical importance to boost the efficacy of fertilization.
Over the past 30 years, fundamental knowledge of plant-microbe interactions has greatly contributed to the crop yield and food supply. However, the mechanisms of nutrient availability and nutrient-mediated signaling adaptation in plant-microbe interactions remain unknown and deciphering these issues will be essential for optimizing crop yield and give novel insights into nutrient competition and utilization.
This Research Topic welcomes Original Research, Reviews, Mini Reviews, Opinion articles, and Research articles providing new insights into how nutrient transporters and signaling or the microbiome regulate plant-microbe interactions:
• Sugar transport (SWEET, STP, and SUT family transporters) and signaling in plant-microbe interactions
• Amino acids transport (UmamiT transporter) and signaling in plant-microbe interactions.
Please note that descriptive studies, including those using 'omics approaches, defining gene families, or descriptive collections of transcripts, proteins, or metabolites will not be considered for review unless they are expanded and provide mechanistic and/or physiological insights into the gene/pathway function in plant-microbe interactions.
