title: Genomic dissection of host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions for advanced plant breeding.
abstract: Agriculture faces many emerging challenges to sustainability, including limited nutrient resources, losses from diseases caused by current and emerging pathogens and environmental degradation. Microorganisms have great importance for plant growth and performance, including the potential to increase yields, nutrient uptake and pathogen resistance. An urgent need is therefore to understand and engineer plants and their associated microbial communities. Recent massive genomic sequencing of host plants and associated microbes offers resources to identify novel mechanisms of communal assembly mediated by the host. For example, host-microbe and microbe-microbe interactions are involved in niche formation, thereby contributing to colonization. By leveraging genomic resources, genetic traits underlying those mechanisms will become important resources to design plants selecting and hosting beneficial microbial communities.
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Research Group Fungal Biodiversity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Samuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kroll
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Research Group Fungal Biodiversity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany.
authors.forename: Matthew T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Agler
authors.affiliation: Max Planck Research Group Fungal Biodiversity, Max Planck Institute for Plant Breeding Research, Carl-von-Linné Weg 10, 50829 Cologne, Germany. Electronic address: kemen@mpipz.mpg.de.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kemen
mesh_terms: D000220:Adaptation, Biological; D023281:Genomics; D064307:Microbiota; D000069600:Plant Breeding; D010944:Plants / Q000382:microbiology*; D013559:Symbiosis