title: A coevolutionary framework for managing disease-suppressive soils.
abstract: This review explores a coevolutionary framework for the study and management of disease-suppressive soil microbial communities. Because antagonistic microbial interactions are especially important to disease suppression, conceptual, theoretical, and empirical work on antagonistic coevolution and its relevance to disease suppression is reviewed. In addition, principles of coevolution are used to develop specific predictions regarding the drivers of disease-suppressive potential in soil microbial communities and to highlight important areas for future research. This approach brings an evolutionary perspective to microbial community management and emphasizes the role of species interactions among indigenous nonpathogenic microbes in developing and maintaining disease-suppressive activities in soil.
authors.affiliation: Department of Plant Pathology, University of Minnesota, Saint Paul, Minnesota 55108, USA. kinkel@umn.edu
authors.forename: Linda L
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Kinkel
authors.forename: Matthew G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bakker
authors.forename: Daniel C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Schlatter
mesh_terms: D000898:Antibiosis; D005075:Biological Evolution; D017753:Ecosystem; D010935:Plant Diseases / Q000382:microbiology*; D012987:Soil; D012988:Soil Microbiology
chemical_list: D012987:Soil