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Deciphering and Harnessing Plant Microbiomes: Detangling the Patterns and Process—A Clean, Green Road to Sustainable Agriculture

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Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture

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Abstract

Plant microbiome refers to the diverse microbial counterparts that are associated with plants and plays a crucial role in host biology, ecology, and evolution. Though plant microbiomes have history of co-evolution with the host plants, certain members other than the core-microbiomes are shaped by various factors including plant genotype, plant age, associated host plant tissue or organ, other interacting microbial associates, arthropods, various environmental factors such as soil physio-chemistry, and human inference such as crop domestication, intensive and extensive cultivation, and use of agrochemicals especially in case of agro-ecosystems. Classical knowledge based on microbial culturing techniques and biochemical analysis prejudiced that when a plant interacts with a microbial partner the relationship could be detrimental as with pathogen interaction or promote plant growth in case of symbiotic associations. Advances in molecular techniques such as culture-independent approaches, next-generation sequencing, and high-throughput screening methods helped us to understand the robust nature of plant-associated microbiomes and their crucial role in plant fitness, environmental protection, and human health. This chapter gives a glimpse of patterns of plant microbiome associations and their importance in plant health and emphasise the importance of both basic and applied research which will enlighten us with deeper insights on the plant microbiomes. This will help us identify economical, eco-friendly, and effective strategies of manipulating the plant-associated microbiomes which can open up new avenues in maintaining plant health and ecological fitness and sustain crop production in a clean green way preserving the nature’s serenity and human health.

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Pathma, J., Debnath, A., Patil, J.B., Bhushan, L.S. (2021). Deciphering and Harnessing Plant Microbiomes: Detangling the Patterns and Process—A Clean, Green Road to Sustainable Agriculture. In: Yadav, A.N., Singh, J., Singh, C., Yadav, N. (eds) Current Trends in Microbial Biotechnology for Sustainable Agriculture . Environmental and Microbial Biotechnology. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-6949-4_6

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