Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Response of Plants to Beneficial Microbes
A special issue of Agronomy (ISSN 2073-4395). This special issue belongs to the section "Farming Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2023) | Viewed by 4518
Special Issue Editors
Interests: microbiology; rhizobium; PGPB
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Interests: host-microbe interactions; bioinformatics; microbiology; multi-OMICs; microbialecology
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleague,
The field of plant–microbe interactions has been the focus of extensive research for decades, leading to discoveries that allow the use of beneficial microbes as plant probiotics and as biocontrol agents. Despite this, many of the positive responses of the plant to these microorganisms remain undescribed. Now, the emergence and development of metabolomic and transcriptomic (RNA-Seq) methodologies enables us to almost fully understand these responses. Here, we present a new Special Issue (SI) for Agronomy, entitled “Metabolomic and Transcriptomic Response of Plants to Beneficial Microbes”. With this SI, we aim to gather knowledge regarding the molecular mechanisms triggered in those interactions involving plants and beneficial microbes. The transcriptomic and metabolomic information obtained from plant–microbe interaction will provide new insights to develop strategies to improve crop productivity and resilience to biotic and abiotic stresses. We welcome articles in which metabolomic and RNA-Seq analyses try to unveil these mechanisms. Understanding plant–microbe interactions will surely enhance the translation of research outputs into a more sustainable agriculture.
Dr. José David Flores-Félix
Dr. Zaki Saati-Santamaría
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- plant–microbe interactions
- transcriptomics
- metabolomics
- microbial ecology
- bioinformatics
- sustainable agriculture
- biofertilizer
- biocontrol