Ecological Restoration Techniques for Management of Degraded, Mined-Out Areas and the Role Played by Rhizospheric Microbial Communities

Pant, Prashant; Pant, Pratibha

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-50654-8_19

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“…This other side of the coin is an obvious extension, but one that has been relatively unexplored. Another potential approach is to alter the native plant community near invasive plants to facilitate subsequent cascading effects on soil microbial communities [ 69 ]. For instance, planting cover crops in infested areas could affect the quantity and quality of root exudates to the soil, which may in turn affect soil biogeochemical processes and nutrient pools and change the microbial community in invaded areas that favor native plants, although, unfortunately, this type of next-order manipulation is not a major area of active research [ 70 ].…”

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A Path Forward: Promoting Microbial-Based Methods in the Control of Invasive Plant Species

Shahrtash

Brown

2021

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In this review, we discuss the unrealized potential of incorporating plant–microbe and microbe–microbe interactions into invasive plant management strategies. While the development of this as a viable strategy is in its infancy, we argue that incorporation of microbial components into management plans should be a priority and has great potential for diversifying sustainable control options. We advocate for increased research into microbial-mediated phytochemical production, microbial controls to reduce the competitiveness of invasive plants, microbial-mediated increases of herbicidal tolerance of native plants, and to facilitate increased pathogenicity of plant pathogens of invasive plants.

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confidence: 99%