Harnessing rhizosphere microbiomes for drought-resilient crop production

Author:

de Vries Franciska T.12ORCID,Griffiths Rob I.3ORCID,Knight Christopher G.1ORCID,Nicolitch Oceane1ORCID,Williams Alex1ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PT, UK.

2. Institute for Biodiversity and Ecosystem Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, 1090 GE Amsterdam, Netherlands.

3. CEH Bangor, Environment Centre Wales, Bangor LL57 2UW, UK.

Abstract

Root-associated microbes can improve plant growth, and they offer the potential to increase crop resilience to future drought. Although our understanding of the complex feedbacks between plant and microbial responses to drought is advancing, most of our knowledge comes from non-crop plants in controlled experiments. We propose that future research efforts should attempt to quantify relationships between plant and microbial traits, explicitly focus on food crops, and include longer-term experiments under field conditions. Overall, we highlight the need for improved mechanistic understanding of the complex feedbacks between plants and microbes during, and particularly after, drought. This requires integrating ecology with plant, microbiome, and molecular approaches and is central to making crop production more resilient to our future climate.

Funder

NERC Environmental Bioinformatics Centre

BBSRC

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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