About this Research Topic
Recent agricultural practices have heavily relied on chemical compounds such as pesticides, fertilizers, and nutrient supplements like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium to boost production. However, these practices have led to increased soil abnormalities such as acidity, alkalinity, salinity, the presence of polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), microplastics, and industrial pollutants. Additionally, microbial pathogens—including bacteria, viruses, and fungi—pose significant biotic stress to plants, further complicating the agricultural landscape.
These abiotic and biotic stresses collectively reduce crop yields and disrupt soil microbial communities, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable stress mitigation strategies. Current research emphasizes microbe-mediated stress alleviation, an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to conventional physicochemical methods.
To develop effective microbial solutions for stress mitigation, it is crucial to unravel the mechanisms behind microbial stress tolerance and their interactions with plants. This requires insights at the genomic level. Initial molecular biology approaches have identified microbial communities that influence plant growth and stress responses. However, the advent of next generation sequencing has revolutionized this research, enabling the identification of previously undetectable microbial species in soil and plants and elucidating how these microbes communicate and respond to environmental stressors.
OMICS technologies—including metagenomics, metaproteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics—offer comprehensive frameworks for understanding the physiological and genetic responses underlying microbial and plant stress tolerance. These integrative approaches provide detailed chemical dialogs and biological maps, setting a new foundation for advancing microbe-mediated stress mitigation and crop improvement.
This Research Topic offers a platform for researchers to share their latest research outcomes in microbial stress mitigation and crop improvement using multiomics holistic approach. Areas to be covered in this collection may include, but are not limited to:
1. OMICS approach to mitigate heavy metals, pesticides, and other contaminants.
2. Microbial metabolomics in stress management.
3. Transcriptome profiling of key genes associated with systematic stress tolerance.
4. Interactome connecting links of stress response.
5. Metaproteomics of soil microbial communities and stress response.
6. Integrated system biology approach for studying genetic architecture identifying key players of plant growth and development.
7. Molecular evidence of Plant Microbes Interaction.
8. Phenomics decoding traits for crop improvement.
9. Biomarker discovery using proteomics addressing stress tolerance.
These abiotic and biotic stresses collectively reduce crop yields and disrupt soil microbial communities, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable stress mitigation strategies. Current research emphasizes microbe-mediated stress alleviation, an environmentally friendly and sustainable alternative to conventional physicochemical methods.
To develop effective microbial solutions for stress mitigation, it is crucial to unravel the mechanisms behind microbial stress tolerance and their interactions with plants. This requires insights at the genomic level. Initial molecular biology approaches have identified microbial communities that influence plant growth and stress responses. However, the advent of next generation sequencing has revolutionized this research, enabling the identification of previously undetectable microbial species in soil and plants and elucidating how these microbes communicate and respond to environmental stressors.
OMICS technologies—including metagenomics, metaproteomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics—offer comprehensive frameworks for understanding the physiological and genetic responses underlying microbial and plant stress tolerance. These integrative approaches provide detailed chemical dialogs and biological maps, setting a new foundation for advancing microbe-mediated stress mitigation and crop improvement.
This Research Topic offers a platform for researchers to share their latest research outcomes in microbial stress mitigation and crop improvement using multiomics holistic approach. Areas to be covered in this collection may include, but are not limited to:
1. OMICS approach to mitigate heavy metals, pesticides, and other contaminants.
2. Microbial metabolomics in stress management.
3. Transcriptome profiling of key genes associated with systematic stress tolerance.
4. Interactome connecting links of stress response.
5. Metaproteomics of soil microbial communities and stress response.
6. Integrated system biology approach for studying genetic architecture identifying key players of plant growth and development.
7. Molecular evidence of Plant Microbes Interaction.
8. Phenomics decoding traits for crop improvement.
9. Biomarker discovery using proteomics addressing stress tolerance.
Keywords: Biotic and Abiotic Stress, Metagenomics, Proteomics, Transcriptomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics, Microbial Stress Management
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