Home‐based microbial solution to boost crop growth in low‐fertility soil

• Published in: The New phytologist Vol. 239; no. 2; pp. 752 - 765
• Main Authors: Jiang, Meitong, Delgado‐Baquerizo, Manuel, Yuan, Mengting Maggie, Ding, Jixian, Yergeau, Etienne, Zhou, Jizhong, Crowther, Thomas W., Liang, Yuting
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.07.2023
• Subjects: Agricultural Inoculants; Agricultural land; Agriculture; Bacteria; Climate change; Colonization; Commercialization; corn; Crop growth; Crop production; Crops; Fertility; Food production; home‐field advantage; Inoculation; metagenomic binning; Microbial activity; microbial colonization; microbial communities; Microbiological strains; microbiome; Microbiomes; Microorganisms; Niche breadth; Niche overlap; niche structure; Niches; phenotype; Phenotypes; Plant growth; plant growth-promoting rhizobacteria; Plant Roots - microbiology; Rhizosphere; rhizosphere microbial community; Soil; Soil - chemistry; Soil degradation; Soil fertility; Soil Microbiology; Soils; synthetic microbial community; synthetic microbial community; home-field advantage; niche structure; soil fertility; metagenomic binning; rhizosphere microbial community

Summary Soil microbial inoculants are expected to boost crop productivity under climate change and soil degradation. However, the efficiency of native vs commercialized microbial inoculants in soils with different fertility and impacts on resident microbial communities remain unclear. We investigate...