Abstract: One of the effective ways of developing sustainable agriculture to ensure human and animal food production with a minimal disturbance to the environment is the exploration of Microbe-based symbioses in plants. Developing molecular approaches based on the continuity of microbial pools which are circulating regularly between soil, plant and animal provided niches in natural and agricultural ecosystems serves in the effectual management of symbiotic microbial communities. Analysis of this circulation could enable the creation of highly productive microbe-based sustainable agricultural system, while attending the ecological and genetic consequences of the broad application of microbes in agricultural practice. Also simulation of evolution implemented in the mutualistic symbioses aid in enhancing ecological efficiency, functional integrity and genotypic specificity ensuing ‘applied co-evolutionary research’ addressing the ecological and molecular mechanisms for mutual adaptation and parallel speciation of plant and microbial partner. The use of microbial symbiotic signals or their derivatives for remodeling plant developmental or defensive functions may be depicted as a promising field. Yet agricultural microbiology confronts several significant ecological and genetic challenges imposed by the broad application of symbiotic microbes. Some of these challenges are being associated with opportunistic or even regular human pathogens. However the prospects for a future development of agricultural microbiology may involve the construction of novel multipartite endo- and ecto-symbiotic communities based on extended genetic and molecular (metagenomic) analyses.
Keywords: Plant–Microbial Symbioses, Agricultural Microbiology, Sustainable Agriculture, Agronomic Potential, Ecological Impacts.
Title: Bacterial Endophytes in Sustainable Crop Production: Applications, Recent Developments and Challenges Ahead
Author: Dr. Swaroopa Maralla
International Journal of Life Sciences Research
ISSN 2348-3148 (online), ISSN 2348-313X (Print)
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