Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture

Mitigating climate change through managing constructed-microbial communities in agriculture

2016

E12514

The importance of increasing crop production while reducing resource inputs and land-use change cannot be overstated especially in light of climate change and a human population growth projected to reach nine billion this century. Mutualistic plant-microbe interactions offer a novel approach to enhance agricultural productivity while reducing yield lossesal costs. In concert with other novel agronomic technologies and management, plant-microbial mutualisms could help increase crop production and reduce yield losses by improving resistance and/or resilience to edaphic, biologic, and climatic variability from both bottom-up and top-down perspectives.

216:304-308, AGRICULTURE, ECOSYSTEMS & ENVIRONMENT

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