Abstract
In the course of evolution, symbiotic relationship is the most prominent and practical depiction of the term ‘survival of the fittest’. Symbiosis is a long-term biological interaction between two distinct organisms and can be classified as mutualistic, parasitic and commensalism. Plant-microbiome and microbe-microbe interactions are the two most crucial symbiotic relationships in the biosphere that play an important regulatory role in crop production, plant development and growth, resistance against plant pathogens, value-added metabolites production, etc. The rhizosphere is the hotspot of such symbiotic interactions where soil microbes influence the physiological and biochemical expressions of the host plants by secreting metabolites, and, simultaneously, plant roots also discharge several different kinds of chemical molecules that affect the cellular expression of the neighbouring microbes. Metabolic expressions of both microbes and plants are critically regulated by each other and induced by different kinds of biotic and abiotic stresses. However, the rhizosphere of different plants houses the same or different kinds of microbial communities, and they have been found to respond uniformly or differently to the same or different types of stresses. Concisely, the existence of the living entities in the planet depends on the synchronized interkingdom symbiosis where plant and rhizomicrobiome play a key regulatory role. Therefore, detailed insight into the rhizospheric symbiosis is essentially needed to understand this interplay at the molecular level.
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Mondal, S., Baksi, S. (2022). Signalling of Rhizosphere Microbiomes: Benign and Malign Borders. In: Arora, N.K., Bouizgarne, B. (eds) Microbial BioTechnology for Sustainable Agriculture Volume 1. Microorganisms for Sustainability, vol 33. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4843-4_7
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