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Applied Life Sciences: The Role of Plant Microbiome Engineering in Stressful Agriculture

Submission status
Open
Open for submission from
31 August 2023
Submission deadline
31 August 2024
Agricultural production faces different environmental challenges and the attack of pathogens that can lead to serious economic losses. Traditionally, to avoid a reduction in production, agrochemicals have been applied that increase crop nutrition and eliminate pathogen infections; however, the collateral damage of these synthetic chemicals in human and animal health, as well as environmental contamination, make us reflect on implementing new strategies with a more sustainable perspective. Such is the case of the use of beneficial microorganisms (and their genomic reservoir) associated with plants, which is known as the microbiome. The microbiome can interact from different plant zones and influence metabolism, physiology, as well as genetic responses that modulate an improved plant phenotype that can tolerate different types of abiotic and biotic stresses. In recent years, different strategies have been integrated for the engineering of the plant microbiome, observing encouraging results that are allowing to continue supplying the global food demand in a sustainable way. In this Topical Collection on "The role of plant microbiome engineering in stressful agriculture", we invite colleagues to submit research and review works that share new results on the subject, as well as establish a discussion about the benefits of modifying the plant microbiome to face the challenges of future in agriculture, and particularly that which is subjected to different stress conditions.

Editors

  • Gustavo Santoyo Gustavo Santoyo

    Gustavo Santoyo

    Professor Gustavo Santoyo, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, Mexico. He is currently a tenured Professor at the Institute of Chemical and Biological Research, Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolas de Hidalgo, in Mexico. His research interest is led towards agrogenomics and plant-microbe interactions, and the development of bioinoculants for agricultural crops. In this field, he has more than 100 scientific publications with approximately 6000 citations (h-factor 39). In the Academy, he has supervised more than 30 doctoral, master and undergrad theses.

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