Synthetic microbiome: improving crop nitrogen acquisition and productivity

在全球气候变化的条件下，粮食安全面临的挑战迫使我们增加作物产量，以养活不断增长的人口。专注于植物与微生物的相互作用，是寻找解决这一挑战的工具的一个有前途的领域。该项目旨在开发一个三步走的框架，使研究人员能够系统地和可重复地调查作物微生物组，使我们能够设计一个“有益的生物组”，这是一个基于生物学的解决方案，用于在有限的条件下提高农业生产力和环境可持续性，在有限的资源可用于施肥。

Challenges to food security under conditions of global climate change are forcing us to increase crop production to feed the growing population. Focusing on the plant–microbe interactions, represent a promising area in the search for tools to address this challenge. This project aims to develop a three-step- framework that allows researchers to systematically and reproducibly investigate crop microbiomes to enable us to design a ‘Beneficial Biome’, a biologically based solution for improving agricultural productivity and environmental sustainability under constrained conditions, where limited resources are available to fertilize.