About this Research Topic
Soil microbiota plays an important role in the sustainable production of different types of agrosystem and ecosystem restoration. Among the members of the plant microbiota, mycorrhizal fungi and plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR)/microorganisms interact in rhizospheric and phyllosphere environments, leading to additive and/or synergistic effects on plant growth and health. The root microbiome plays a fundamental role in the functioning of plants by contributing to their nutrition, improving their protection, and fostering their development. Mycorrhizal fungi colonizing the roots of most plant species supply the plants with minerals gathered from the soil in exchange for plant-assimilated carbon. Mycorrhizae-plant promoting microorganism interactions, which occur mainly in rhizospheric soil, but also in the phyllosphere or with endosymbionts, are of great relevance to stimulating plant growth, as well as to the amelioration of plant abiotic and biotic stress. While a number of the reported studies are directly relevant to improving plant agriculture, deciphering the detailed molecular and ecological interactions between mycorrhiza, with emphasis on arbuscular mycorrhizae (AM), and PGPR is essential to developing a better understanding of the synergistic behavior between these groups of microorganisms. Studies that allow us to understand these interactions with omic techniques and other advanced techniques in favour of the well-being of the plant are welcome in this special issue.
Our goal is to create a special issue of Frontiers in Soil Science with articles that reflect the latest on subjects relating to the interaction of mycorrhizae and microorganisms belonging to the plant microbiome. With the mycorrhizal association, plants show an improvement in tolerance to biotic stresses (such as the affection by phytopathogens in the root or aerial part) and abiotic stresses (salinity, temperatures, water stress, nutritional deficit or others). Beneficial microorganisms perform functions that favor plants, and by interacting with mycorrhizae, they act synergistically, mitigating biotic and abiotic stresses on the plant. The investigations to be presented in research articles, reviews of topics, or scientific notes on new methodologies must show the advances in this subject through the use of current tools of molecular biology in general, omic, or other modern techniques, which provide knowledge for the best understanding of the interactions for the benefit of the plant.
This special issue would be focused on the latest approaches in the knowledge of mechanisms that explain how mycorrhiza and beneficial microorganisms can improve health and defense against plant phytopathogens, alleviate water, nutrient or saline stress, ameliorate soil structure or soil food web, and/or illustrate mycorrhizospheric effect on the selection of specific microbial groups that interact positively with mycorrhiza. Original research, reviews, short research communications, and new technical proposals are welcome to this special issue.
Our goal is to create a special issue of Frontiers in Soil Science with articles that reflect the latest on subjects relating to the interaction of mycorrhizae and microorganisms belonging to the plant microbiome. With the mycorrhizal association, plants show an improvement in tolerance to biotic stresses (such as the affection by phytopathogens in the root or aerial part) and abiotic stresses (salinity, temperatures, water stress, nutritional deficit or others). Beneficial microorganisms perform functions that favor plants, and by interacting with mycorrhizae, they act synergistically, mitigating biotic and abiotic stresses on the plant. The investigations to be presented in research articles, reviews of topics, or scientific notes on new methodologies must show the advances in this subject through the use of current tools of molecular biology in general, omic, or other modern techniques, which provide knowledge for the best understanding of the interactions for the benefit of the plant.
This special issue would be focused on the latest approaches in the knowledge of mechanisms that explain how mycorrhiza and beneficial microorganisms can improve health and defense against plant phytopathogens, alleviate water, nutrient or saline stress, ameliorate soil structure or soil food web, and/or illustrate mycorrhizospheric effect on the selection of specific microbial groups that interact positively with mycorrhiza. Original research, reviews, short research communications, and new technical proposals are welcome to this special issue.
Keywords: biotic stress, abiotic stress, phytopathogens, soil salinity, plant defense, soil aggregation
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