Advances in Microbial Endophytes Omics and Fungal Biocontrol Agents
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Plant Microbe Interactions".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 July 2021) | Viewed by 3624
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Despite an accelerated pace of research surrounding the endophytic microbiome, this fascinating minute world bears many open questions, waiting for scientific resolutions. Understanding how beneficial endophytic and biocontrol microorganisms can counter climate change and invasive plant pathogens is the greatest challenge of forestry, agriculture, and plant biotechnology. Scientific innovation can benefit from deciphering endophytic and fungal biocontrol agents’ lifestyles. The plant microbiomes—endophytes and biocontrol microbes—have the ability to colonize a plant's internal tissues, shaping plant traits and interactome, as well as ensuring protection from abiotic and biotic stresses, including diseases, insect pests, and pathogenic nematodes. Despite these attributes, a profound understanding of the genomic, transcriptomic and proteomics drivers is lacking, impeding advancement of knowledge on core mechanisms of metagenomic-multitrophic interactions linked to plant resistance, host plant protection, and environmental sustainability.
The aim of this Special Issue, entitled “Advancements in Microbial Endophytes Omics and Fungal Biocontrol Agents”, is to explore recent innovations, theoretical concepts and contemporary experimental models, surrounding true endophytic and biocontrol modes of actions (e.g. hyper-parasitism and predation), which are linked to the direct and indirect promotion of plant growth, physiology, and resistance.
Methodological barriers are lessening; and general revival in omics, imaging, and computational is rising to help address these scientific priorities.
I invite contributions from scientists, microbiologists or mycologists to this Special Issue in order to highlight innovative ideas and experimental results, which empower microbial-based plant technologies to improve plant, environmental, animal and human health.
Dr. Vladimir Vujanovic
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- plant endophytes
- biological control
- microbiome/mycobiome
- omics, antimicrobials
- microbe-mediated traits
- microbe-driven biotechnology
- imaging
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