Microbiomes in Crop Yield and Stress Biology
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Microbe Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (15 April 2024) | Viewed by 4871
Special Issue Editor
Interests: systems biology; network science; functional genomics; bioinformatics; deep/machine learning using animal and plant models
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Over the next two decades, the world is predicted to experience an unprecedented global food crisis due to the rapidly growing world population, a food security issue further compounded by global climate change. It is a well-known fact that human activities are undoubtedly driving up the global temperature and fundamentally changing the world around us. Global climate change has far-reaching consequences on plant life and agriculture as a whole. Diverse environmental stresses, including plant pathogens, droughts, flooding, salinity, soil acidification, cold and heat, directly limit crop production. By identifying beneficial microorganisms, crops may be more resilient to such unfavorable stressors, thus, de-escalating the food security problem. In this Special Issue, we aim to focus on plant metagenomics, with articles presenting the functional characterization of novel microbes capable of helping plants thrive in both biotic and abiotic stress conditions.
Dr. M. Shahid Mukhtar
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metagenomics
- bioinformatics
- microbiome
- model plant systems
- agronomically important crops
- functional genomics
- climate change
- crop production
- plant pathogens
- abiotic stresses
