Recently, studies on the rhizosphere have made great efforts in agriculture sustainability. In this, the soil microbiota investigated has great potential for plant growth and development. To date, key issues like structure, composition, and function of rhizosphere have been identified that need to be further evaluated for better agricultural productivity. This is alongside various environmental factors such as climate change, soil pollution, changing environment, interaction with the host plant, antagonistic features, etc. Although, the ability to manage and modify the rhizosphere is limited as traditionally applying organic matter and experimentally microbial inoculation is a common direct way to manipulate the rhizosphere.
Despite this, the rhizosphere in agricultural land is normally manipulated by tillage along with various inputs such as fertilizer application, pesticides, irrigation, etc. However, scientific advantages such as new gene editing, multi-omics approaches, and synthetic biology techniques along with different datasets such as the genome, proteome, transcriptome, metabolome, etc. have recent modulation to manipulate the rhizosphere. These mentioned approaches are useful to manipulate the rhizosphere and rhizospheric biota that can resolve agricultural problems.
Rhizosphere of any plant plays an important role in its growth and development. In other words, healthy rhizosphere makes the plant healthy and productive, that can be more productive after its manipulation. It has been observed that plants can shape their associated microbiome efficiently. Therefore, in recent years, efforts are being made to design the rhizosphere as per our need. The major objectives of rhizospheric engineering are to understand, predict, and control the rhizospheric functions as well as interactions for enhancing crop productivity and sustainability.
This Research Topic therefore aims to gather the most recent scientific information regarding rhizosphere manipulation towards crop production that will compile the latest research, trends and innovations in the field of rhizosphere manipulation. It will discuss different approaches and strategies to achieve the objectives. We will document the recent advancements and innovations to manipulate and engineer rhizosphere for gaining agricultural productivity and sustainability. We also attempt to cover expertise from all over the world in order to provide the latest and updated research input to readers. It will be beneficial to students, researcher’s policymakers, industrial societies and farmers.
Authors are expected to provide legitimate and recent scientific information regarding rhizosphere manipulation that could cover the pesticide management, land management, the latest engineering and omics approaches, alongside biofertilizer engineering that can ultimately improve the rhizosphere and enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.
Recently, studies on the rhizosphere have made great efforts in agriculture sustainability. In this, the soil microbiota investigated has great potential for plant growth and development. To date, key issues like structure, composition, and function of rhizosphere have been identified that need to be further evaluated for better agricultural productivity. This is alongside various environmental factors such as climate change, soil pollution, changing environment, interaction with the host plant, antagonistic features, etc. Although, the ability to manage and modify the rhizosphere is limited as traditionally applying organic matter and experimentally microbial inoculation is a common direct way to manipulate the rhizosphere.
Despite this, the rhizosphere in agricultural land is normally manipulated by tillage along with various inputs such as fertilizer application, pesticides, irrigation, etc. However, scientific advantages such as new gene editing, multi-omics approaches, and synthetic biology techniques along with different datasets such as the genome, proteome, transcriptome, metabolome, etc. have recent modulation to manipulate the rhizosphere. These mentioned approaches are useful to manipulate the rhizosphere and rhizospheric biota that can resolve agricultural problems.
Rhizosphere of any plant plays an important role in its growth and development. In other words, healthy rhizosphere makes the plant healthy and productive, that can be more productive after its manipulation. It has been observed that plants can shape their associated microbiome efficiently. Therefore, in recent years, efforts are being made to design the rhizosphere as per our need. The major objectives of rhizospheric engineering are to understand, predict, and control the rhizospheric functions as well as interactions for enhancing crop productivity and sustainability.
This Research Topic therefore aims to gather the most recent scientific information regarding rhizosphere manipulation towards crop production that will compile the latest research, trends and innovations in the field of rhizosphere manipulation. It will discuss different approaches and strategies to achieve the objectives. We will document the recent advancements and innovations to manipulate and engineer rhizosphere for gaining agricultural productivity and sustainability. We also attempt to cover expertise from all over the world in order to provide the latest and updated research input to readers. It will be beneficial to students, researcher’s policymakers, industrial societies and farmers.
Authors are expected to provide legitimate and recent scientific information regarding rhizosphere manipulation that could cover the pesticide management, land management, the latest engineering and omics approaches, alongside biofertilizer engineering that can ultimately improve the rhizosphere and enhance agricultural productivity and sustainability.
