Restoring the Integrated Behaviour of the Soil-Plant-Microbe System, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Microorganisms (ISSN 2076-2607). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Microbiology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 January 2025 | Viewed by 359
Special Issue Editor
Interests: soil systems science; theoretical biology; modelling
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue is the continuation of our previous Special Issue, entitled “Restoring the Integrated Behaviour of the Soil-Plant-Microbe System”
The world is facing an existential threat from climate change, biodiversity collapse, and food and water insecurity. The restoration of global soil health mitigates the risk from all of these challenges. Whilst we have sufficient knowledge to get started, there remain substantial challenges to transforming the health of the world’s soils. Central to these challenges is understanding how carbon impacts microbial function and how this leads to changes in the physical and biological properties that underpin natural fertility. This Special Issue will pull together the leading thinkers in the integrated behaviour of the soil-plant-microbe system to suggest a way forward to fill these knowledge gaps, whilst simultaneously delivering impact in the ground at the scale and pace required. This perspective will be combined with the views of leaders from the agricultural, finance, and technology sectors to propose a self-sustaining systems approach.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. John Crawford
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- food security
- agriculture
- technology
- plant
- soil
- microbe
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