A Vavilovian approach to discovering crop-associated microbes with potential to enhance plant immunity.

ABSTRACT: Through active associations with a diverse community of largely non-pathogenic microbes, a plant may be thought of as possessing an "extended genotype," an interactive cross-organismal genome with potential, exploitable implications for plant immunity. The successful enrichment of plant microbiomes with beneficial species has led to numerous commercial applications, and the hunt for new biocontrol organisms continues. Increasingly flexible and affordable sequencing technologies, supported by increasingly comprehensive taxonomic databases, make the characterization of non-model crop-associated microbiomes a widely accessible research method toward this end; and such studies are becoming more frequent. A summary of this emerging literature reveals, however, the need for a more systematic res

SUBMITTER: Hale IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4167000 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature