Rhizosphere Microbiomes in Sustainable Agriculture: Applications in Crop Production, Protection, and Soil Clean-Up
A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Soil Conservation and Sustainability".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2022) | Viewed by 7397
Special Issue Editor
Interests: PGPR; plant–microbe interactions; biocontrol; plant growth promotion
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The new agricultural systems require a balance between production and a minimum of impacts on the environment. In this sense, the microorganisms that reside in the rhizosphere (rhizosphere microbiome) of plants can help in this task, making agricultural production a sustainable activity. Microbiome applications may be relevant to stimulate crop growth and production, as well as inhibit the growth of potential pathogens and / or stimulate defense responses in plant hosts. Multiple studies have also shown that rhizosphere microbes, such as bacteria or fungi, can help in bioremediation of soils contaminated with heavy metals or complex compounds.
As a guest editor of this Special Issue, I invite you to collaborate with original research papers, opinion articles or reviews on the rhizosphere microbiome that shed new light on the understanding of the biological interactions in this complex microecosystem (the rhizosphere), and that help to generate sustainable processes in present and future systems for agricultural production.
This Special Issue includes (but is not limited) to the following topics:
- Mechanisms of action of rhizosphere microbes
- Applications of beneficial fungi (such as Trichoderma and Mycorrhizae) in agriculture
- Description of novel biocontrol agents for pre- and postharvest diseases
- Beneficial plant-microbiomes interactions
- Plant growth-promotion by microbial consortia
- Application and commercialization of bioinoculants for sustainable agriculture
- Rhizosphere microbiome engineering
- Role of the rhizosphere microbiome in reducing abiotic and biotic stress in plant crops
- State-of-the-art reviews on rhizosphere microbiome in sustainable agriculture
- State-of-the-art reviews on soil clean-up by soil microbes
Dr. Gustavo Santoyo
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant growth-promoting bacteria
- rhizosphere ecology
- microbiome diversity
- biological control
- sustainable agriculture
- metagenomics
- plant-microbe interactions
- trichoderma
- mycorrhizae
- microbial consortia
- bioinoculants
