Plants face several environmental stresses that affect the crop productivities, food quality and food safety worldwide. The environmental adversities including biotic and abiotic stresses alter physiological aspects, biochemical traits and molecular mechanisms of plants. The employment of pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides during agricultural practices leads to reduced soil fertility and addition of pollutants into the environment. It is therefore advisable to use economical and environmentally friendly methods for sustainable agriculture. Soil microorganisms are considered to be crucial candidates that provide the economically fascinating mode for plant protection during stressed conditions. They modulate plant growth through a plethora of mechanisms including but not limited to a regulation of phytohormone levels, nutrient uptake, nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, antioxidative defence expression, and production of different secondary metabolites and siderophores. Furthermore, they also provide tolerance towards biotic stresses such as pathogenic organisms through activation of induced systemic resistance and systemic acquired resistance mechanisms in plants. The microbe interactions with plants are, therefore, most crucial in sustainable agriculture practices that replace conventional methods by biological methods. They contribute to improve plant characteristics and control plant diseases under changing environmental conditions without interfering in the functioning of ecosystem. Therefore, the inclusive use of the soil microorganisms proves to be the potential technology for sustainable agriculture globally.
This Research Topic aims to explore the recent advances in understanding the response of the plant and its microbiome interactions to climate change. The ways in which microbiomes can mitigate the negative effects will better inform predictions of climate change impacts on primary productivity and aid in developing management and policy tools to improve the resilience of agroecosystems. Thanks to advances in OMICs technologies, we can assess the effect of environmental conditions on plant associated microorganisms and on plant response mechanisms using metagenomic, proteomic and transcriptomic toolboxes.
This Research Topic solicits original research manuscripts, reviews and mini reviews that cover but are not limited to the following themes:
• Plant-microbe interactions under environmental stress
• Impact of climate change on the assembly of the plant microbiome
• Evolutionary and eco-evolutionary responses of plant microbiome interactions under climate change
• Use of beneficial microorganisms as environmental stress-alleviating inoculants
• Plant-microbe interactions: insights and views for applications in sustainable agriculture challenges to climate change
Plants face several environmental stresses that affect the crop productivities, food quality and food safety worldwide. The environmental adversities including biotic and abiotic stresses alter physiological aspects, biochemical traits and molecular mechanisms of plants. The employment of pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides during agricultural practices leads to reduced soil fertility and addition of pollutants into the environment. It is therefore advisable to use economical and environmentally friendly methods for sustainable agriculture. Soil microorganisms are considered to be crucial candidates that provide the economically fascinating mode for plant protection during stressed conditions. They modulate plant growth through a plethora of mechanisms including but not limited to a regulation of phytohormone levels, nutrient uptake, nitrogen fixation, phosphate solubilization, antioxidative defence expression, and production of different secondary metabolites and siderophores. Furthermore, they also provide tolerance towards biotic stresses such as pathogenic organisms through activation of induced systemic resistance and systemic acquired resistance mechanisms in plants. The microbe interactions with plants are, therefore, most crucial in sustainable agriculture practices that replace conventional methods by biological methods. They contribute to improve plant characteristics and control plant diseases under changing environmental conditions without interfering in the functioning of ecosystem. Therefore, the inclusive use of the soil microorganisms proves to be the potential technology for sustainable agriculture globally.
This Research Topic aims to explore the recent advances in understanding the response of the plant and its microbiome interactions to climate change. The ways in which microbiomes can mitigate the negative effects will better inform predictions of climate change impacts on primary productivity and aid in developing management and policy tools to improve the resilience of agroecosystems. Thanks to advances in OMICs technologies, we can assess the effect of environmental conditions on plant associated microorganisms and on plant response mechanisms using metagenomic, proteomic and transcriptomic toolboxes.
This Research Topic solicits original research manuscripts, reviews and mini reviews that cover but are not limited to the following themes:
• Plant-microbe interactions under environmental stress
• Impact of climate change on the assembly of the plant microbiome
• Evolutionary and eco-evolutionary responses of plant microbiome interactions under climate change
• Use of beneficial microorganisms as environmental stress-alleviating inoculants
• Plant-microbe interactions: insights and views for applications in sustainable agriculture challenges to climate change