Chapter 2
The Plant Microbiome in Agricultural Sustainability
From Microbe to Microbiome
Jose Pedro Fonseca,
Yuan Wang, Kirankumar S. Mysore,
Jose Pedro Fonseca
The Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, USA
Search for more papers by this authorKirankumar S. Mysore
The Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, USA
Search for more papers by this authorJose Pedro Fonseca,
Yuan Wang, Kirankumar S. Mysore,
Jose Pedro Fonseca
The Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, USA
Search for more papers by this authorKirankumar S. Mysore
The Noble Research Institute, Ardmore, OK, USA
Search for more papers by this authorBook Editor(s):Alok Kumar Srivastava,
Prem Lal Kashyap,
Madhumita Srivastava,
Alok Kumar Srivastava
ICAR-National Bureau of Agriculturally Important Microorganisms (NBAIM), Kushmaur, Mau, Uttar Pradesh, India
Search for more papers by this authorPrem Lal Kashyap
ICAR-Indian Institute of Wheat and Barley Research (IIWBR), Karnal, Haryana, India
Search for more papers by this authorMadhumita Srivastava
Sunbeam College for Women, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India
Search for more papers by this authorSummary
Agricultural sustainability can be understood as the means to obtain productive performance of a cropping system over time without hampering the future potential of natural resources such as soil health. A new green revolution in the twenty-first century is needed not only to maintain increased crop production and yield but also to improve agricultural sustainability with the use of microbial biotechnology. Plant microbiome composition has been shown to be a dynamic entity that quickly responds to many genetic, chemical, and environmental factors, such as host genotype and agricultural practices including fertilizer or pesticide application. The emerging picture on the effect of plant root activity in the rhizosphere microbiota indicates a dynamic environment where several biological processes and exchanges take place between root secreted compounds and rhizosphere dwelling microbes which are absent in bulk soil microbiota causing shifts in microbial population.
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