Understanding the mechanism of the microbial signalome is key to improving crop productivity through a sustainable approach. A more precise understanding of the different tolerance strategies to preserve crop productivity through environmental management can help to maintain, as much as possible, the genetic potential of crops. The focus of the Research Topic is related to improving plant productivity, improving the architecture, and maintaining the balance between soil and plant health. This Research Topic covers various inter/intra-communications, like quorum sensing by releasing different signal molecules with particulate phytohormones and bacteriocins.
Metabolites or the metabolome are the bands of molecules produced by various processes within cells or the end products of the biological system in response to the outer or inner changes for improving the microbial health in the soil rhizobiome. A contemporary approach to microbial miscellany invigorates fast progress in microbiome research and unique advancements in generating complete datasets of natural processes of all essential life molecules, including genes, protein, and metabolites. The microbial metabolites have been involved in microbial interactions and can perform important functions in ecological interactions.
A widely studied mechanism of microbial interaction is quorum sensing which consists of a stimuli-response system related to cellular concentration. The production of signaling molecules allows cells to communicate and respond to the environment in a coordinated manner. The driving motivation for harnessing beneficial microbes and analyzing the metabolome is to improve the quality and productivity of crop plants.
Therefore, a multi-omic and coordinated research effort for plant microbes and metabolome and communication signalling pathways is the need of the hour to put into modern agricultural practices for sustainable agriculture. Omic studies are required to determine the role and understanding of beneficial strains and inoculation with crop varieties to improve plant architecture and other traits like stress tolerance and host-pathogen interaction. Multi-omic approaches are requisite for studying the mechanisms of plant-microbe interaction vis-à-vis the growth and development of crops. The metabolome signalling or two-way communication study is also a challenging thrust area that will provide new opportunities to reveal the understanding of plant-microbe interaction. The driving motivation for harnessing beneficial microbes to treat various crop diseases is for crop plants' quality and productivity.
The predictive and adaptive functions for the studied plants using various emerging tools like targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches for functional potential and other techniques like meta-transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics reveal that the community phenotype is to increase heritability well as target breeding strategies to boost the agricultural industry. Furthermore, integrating all statistical and bioinformatics tools to manage massive generating data, metabolite profiling, essential signalling is driven substances, developing a sustainable consortium, and determining the know-how of critical biosynthetic pathways will be expounded.
The key features of this Research Topic are:
- Metabolomics for crop improvement: Quality and productivity
- Modulation of the microbiome by plant metabolites
- Exploration of plant metabolome flux and root microbiome in agriculture
- Plant and Microbial signals: growth and development of crops
- Metabolic engineering studies of microbes: microbial cell factories
- Metabolomics and microbial biocontrol agents
- Metabolic pathway conception and scrutiny of plant-microbe interaction
Understanding the mechanism of the microbial signalome is key to improving crop productivity through a sustainable approach. A more precise understanding of the different tolerance strategies to preserve crop productivity through environmental management can help to maintain, as much as possible, the genetic potential of crops. The focus of the Research Topic is related to improving plant productivity, improving the architecture, and maintaining the balance between soil and plant health. This Research Topic covers various inter/intra-communications, like quorum sensing by releasing different signal molecules with particulate phytohormones and bacteriocins.
Metabolites or the metabolome are the bands of molecules produced by various processes within cells or the end products of the biological system in response to the outer or inner changes for improving the microbial health in the soil rhizobiome. A contemporary approach to microbial miscellany invigorates fast progress in microbiome research and unique advancements in generating complete datasets of natural processes of all essential life molecules, including genes, protein, and metabolites. The microbial metabolites have been involved in microbial interactions and can perform important functions in ecological interactions.
A widely studied mechanism of microbial interaction is quorum sensing which consists of a stimuli-response system related to cellular concentration. The production of signaling molecules allows cells to communicate and respond to the environment in a coordinated manner. The driving motivation for harnessing beneficial microbes and analyzing the metabolome is to improve the quality and productivity of crop plants.
Therefore, a multi-omic and coordinated research effort for plant microbes and metabolome and communication signalling pathways is the need of the hour to put into modern agricultural practices for sustainable agriculture. Omic studies are required to determine the role and understanding of beneficial strains and inoculation with crop varieties to improve plant architecture and other traits like stress tolerance and host-pathogen interaction. Multi-omic approaches are requisite for studying the mechanisms of plant-microbe interaction vis-à-vis the growth and development of crops. The metabolome signalling or two-way communication study is also a challenging thrust area that will provide new opportunities to reveal the understanding of plant-microbe interaction. The driving motivation for harnessing beneficial microbes to treat various crop diseases is for crop plants' quality and productivity.
The predictive and adaptive functions for the studied plants using various emerging tools like targeted and shotgun metagenomic approaches for functional potential and other techniques like meta-transcriptomics, proteomics, and metabolomics reveal that the community phenotype is to increase heritability well as target breeding strategies to boost the agricultural industry. Furthermore, integrating all statistical and bioinformatics tools to manage massive generating data, metabolite profiling, essential signalling is driven substances, developing a sustainable consortium, and determining the know-how of critical biosynthetic pathways will be expounded.
The key features of this Research Topic are:
- Metabolomics for crop improvement: Quality and productivity
- Modulation of the microbiome by plant metabolites
- Exploration of plant metabolome flux and root microbiome in agriculture
- Plant and Microbial signals: growth and development of crops
- Metabolic engineering studies of microbes: microbial cell factories
- Metabolomics and microbial biocontrol agents
- Metabolic pathway conception and scrutiny of plant-microbe interaction
