Climate change over the past few years has been quite sudden in many regions around the world with a strong impact on agricultural productivity. To increase agricultural productivity without increasing pressure on natural environments or consuming more fossil fuels, the capabilities of the microbial world could be exploited. Indeed, since all plants in all environments depend on microbes, they could potentially benefit from optimization of their microbial partners. Recent progress in the application of omics technologies can reveal the role of microorganisms and their interaction with plant physiology. In addition, -omics can be applied to elucidate growth, senescence, yield, and the responses to biotic and abiotic stress in plants. The integration of different omics technologies allows the analysis of the relationships between plant genomes and phenotypes under specific environmental conditions, and to predict the response mechanisms of microorganisms to the environment. These advanced plant biotechnologies could be used as strategy to obtain plants with high resistance to stress conditions and therefore able to cope with climate change.
This Research topic aims to address the problems of plant growth and productivity deriving from the effects of climate change. It would like to highlight that the use of different integrated systems to study beneficial interactions between plants and soil bacteria (including mutualists, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia, and commensals, such as plant growth-promoting bacteria, fungal and bacterial endophytes) can help improve plant productivity in a sustainable way. In particular, the Research Topic presented envisages the concept of plant-microbe interaction with respect to genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics. In addition, it emphasizes that the integration of modern omics technologies with the crop production practices could help elucidate the relationships between crops genome and phenotype under wider array of environmental conditions.
This Research Topic aims to present a collection of high-quality scientific papers to broaden the scientific literature and discussions on the use of modern technologies to improve plant growth and productivity in adverse environmental conditions. For this Topic, Original Research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives are welcome. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously. Contributions should be focused on, but not restricted to the following themes:
• The usefulness of -omics technologies to unravel plant-microbiome interaction, mainly focusing on the role of root-associated microbiota in plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses and on the importance of these microorganisms in root plasticity.
• Effectiveness of omics approaches in clarifying the mechanisms by which beneficial microbes (i.e. arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, plant growth-promoting bacteria, fungal and bacterial endophytes, and so on) improve the resistance of crop varieties to biotic and abiotic stresses.
Climate change over the past few years has been quite sudden in many regions around the world with a strong impact on agricultural productivity. To increase agricultural productivity without increasing pressure on natural environments or consuming more fossil fuels, the capabilities of the microbial world could be exploited. Indeed, since all plants in all environments depend on microbes, they could potentially benefit from optimization of their microbial partners. Recent progress in the application of omics technologies can reveal the role of microorganisms and their interaction with plant physiology. In addition, -omics can be applied to elucidate growth, senescence, yield, and the responses to biotic and abiotic stress in plants. The integration of different omics technologies allows the analysis of the relationships between plant genomes and phenotypes under specific environmental conditions, and to predict the response mechanisms of microorganisms to the environment. These advanced plant biotechnologies could be used as strategy to obtain plants with high resistance to stress conditions and therefore able to cope with climate change.
This Research topic aims to address the problems of plant growth and productivity deriving from the effects of climate change. It would like to highlight that the use of different integrated systems to study beneficial interactions between plants and soil bacteria (including mutualists, such as arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi and rhizobia, and commensals, such as plant growth-promoting bacteria, fungal and bacterial endophytes) can help improve plant productivity in a sustainable way. In particular, the Research Topic presented envisages the concept of plant-microbe interaction with respect to genomics, (meta)transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, and ionomics. In addition, it emphasizes that the integration of modern omics technologies with the crop production practices could help elucidate the relationships between crops genome and phenotype under wider array of environmental conditions.
This Research Topic aims to present a collection of high-quality scientific papers to broaden the scientific literature and discussions on the use of modern technologies to improve plant growth and productivity in adverse environmental conditions. For this Topic, Original Research Articles, Reviews, and Perspectives are welcome. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously. Contributions should be focused on, but not restricted to the following themes:
• The usefulness of -omics technologies to unravel plant-microbiome interaction, mainly focusing on the role of root-associated microbiota in plant tolerance to abiotic and biotic stresses and on the importance of these microorganisms in root plasticity.
• Effectiveness of omics approaches in clarifying the mechanisms by which beneficial microbes (i.e. arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi, rhizobia, plant growth-promoting bacteria, fungal and bacterial endophytes, and so on) improve the resistance of crop varieties to biotic and abiotic stresses.
