New frontiers in agriculture productivity: Optimised microbial inoculants and in situ microbiome engineering

Trichoderma parareesei Favors the Tolerance of Rapeseed (Brassica napus L.) to Salinity and Drought Due to a Chorismate Mutase

“…The drought stress was developed due to a progressive reduction in watering from the development of the third true leaf (three-week-old plants). The pots were irrigated twice a week in weeks 4 and 5, once a week in weeks 6 and 7, and once every two weeks until the end of the life cycle (weeks [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19].…”

Towards Better Understanding of the Interactions and Efficient Application of Plant Beneficial Prebiotics, Probiotics, Postbiotics and Synbiotics

“…Secondly, due to chemicalization of soils, climate and environmental changes, there is a clear decline in the soil microbial diversity and in the number of PBM: plants are less able to attract, select, and outsource their colonizers as the link between them is broken (Hardoim et al, 2015). Therefore, based on previous physical, chemical, and biological/biochemical analysis of the soil-plant system and microenvironment, we should introduce microbial inoculants composed by a single or multiple microorganism(s) (Qiu et al, 2019). Thirdly, in some cases, microbial formulated products demonstrated excellent plant growth promoting or plant protection effects under greenhouse-controlled conditions, but showed unsatisfactory results in field conditions.…”

“…Formulated products can be liquid or solid and should fulfil a number of requirements, the most important of which are to demonstrate high colonizing effectiveness and competitiveness, and increase plant nutrition and health status (Malusa and Vassilev, 2014). One of the most promising formulation techniques is the encapsulation in macro-and micro-beads of polysaccharides which guarantees a continuous deliver of the inoculant into soil preventing the effect of soil and environmental stress factors including indigenous microbial community (Bashan et al, 2016;Qiu et al, 2019). However, a simple gel-entrapment is not sufficient to ensure economical advantages and desired agronomic impact of the formulates (Vassilev et al, 2020).…”

Prospects for the Study and Improvement of Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Date Palms in the Post-genomics Era

“…Engineering of the root-associated microbiome can be used to alter microbiome composition and potentially improve tolerance to abiotic stress. While bioengineering of the plant microbiome is in its infancy, it is an interesting option to improve the biological capabilities of plants (Qiu et al, 2019).…”