“…Indeed, microbial consortia hold tremendous promise in agriculture. The use of these communities of microorganisms can revolutionize agricultural practices by improving nutrient availability (Yadav et al, 2014;Shukla et al, 2020;Vishwakarma et al, 2020;Jaiswal et al, 2022b;Islam et al, 2023); disease suppression (Sarma et al, 2015;Gómez Expósito et al, 2017;Dheeman et al, 2023); soil health (Khan et al, 2023;Nabi, 2023); plant growth promotion (Verma et al, 2014a(Verma et al, , 2023Méndez-Bravo et al, 2023); crop protection (Jaiswal et al, 2022a); management abiotic stress (Krishna et al, 2022;Prajapati et al, 2022;Hett et al, 2023;Mahreen et al, 2023); sustainable crop productivity (Singh et al, 2016;Mukherjee et al, 2022;Kaushal et al, 2023;Paravar et al, 2023), and promoting sustainable farming methods (Jha et al, 2013;Kong et al, 2018;Gehlot et al, 2021). It is worth noting that engineering microbial consortia for agricultural applications is still in its early stages.…”