| Title: | The Use of Synthetic Microbial Communities to Improve Plant Health |
| Author(s): | Martins SJ; Pasche J; Silva HAO; Selten G; Savastano N; Abreu LM; Bais HP; Garrett KA; Kraisitudomsook N; Pieterse CMJ; Cernava T; |
| Address: | "Department of Plant Pathology, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, 32611, U.S.A. Departamento de Fitopatologia, Universidade Federal de Vicosa, Vicosa, MG 36570-900, Brazil. Plant-Microbe Interactions, Department of Biology, Utrecht University, Padualaan 8, 3584 CH Utrecht, The Netherlands. Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, 311 AP Biopharma, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19713, U.S.A. Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, Graz University of Technology, Graz, 8020, Austria. School of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Environmental and Life Sciences, University of Southampton, Southampton, SO17 1BJ, U.K" |
| DOI: | 10.1094/PHYTO-01-23-0016-IA |
| ISSN/ISBN: | 0031-949X (Print) 0031-949X (Linking) |
| Abstract: | "Despite the numerous benefits plants receive from probiotics, maintaining consistent results across applications is still a challenge. Cultivation-independent methods associated with reduced sequencing costs have considerably improved the overall understanding of microbial ecology in the plant environment. As a result, now, it is possible to engineer a consortium of microbes aiming for improved plant health. Such synthetic microbial communities (SynComs) contain carefully chosen microbial species to produce the desired microbiome function. Microbial biofilm formation, production of secondary metabolites, and ability to induce plant resistance are some of the microbial traits to consider when designing SynComs. Plant-associated microbial communities are not assembled randomly. Ecological theories suggest that these communities have a defined phylogenetic organization structured by general community assembly rules. Using machine learning, we can study these rules and target microbial functions that generate desired plant phenotypes. Well-structured assemblages are more likely to lead to a stable SynCom that thrives under environmental stressors as compared with the classical selection of single microbial activities or taxonomy. However, ensuring microbial colonization and long-term plant phenotype stability is still one of the challenges to overcome with SynComs, as the synthetic community may change over time with microbial horizontal gene transfer and retained mutations. Here, we explored the advances made in SynCom research regarding plant health, focusing on bacteria, as they are the most dominant microbial form compared with other members of the microbiome and the most commonly found in SynCom studies" |
| Keywords: | biofilm dysbiosis eubiosis food security induced systemic resistance (ISR) inoculants microbial volatile organic compounds (mVOCs) microbiome phytobiome plant growth promoting (PGP) plant-bacteria interaction; |
| Notes: | "PublisherMartins, Samuel J Pasche, Josephine Silva, Hiago Antonio O Selten, Gijs Savastano, Noah Abreu, Lucas Magalhaes Bais, Harsh P Garrett, Karen A Kraisitudomsook, Nattapol Pieterse, Corne M J Cernava, Tomislav eng 2023/03/02 Phytopathology. 2023 Sep 20:PHYTO01230016IA. doi: 10.1094/PHYTO-01-23-0016-IA" |
