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CURRENT OPINION IN BIOTECHNOLOGY
Volume 73, Issue -, Pages 380-386Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2021.09.009
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- Australian Government Reef Trust
- Great Barrier Reef Foundation
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Coral reefs globally are facing pressure from climate change, resulting in concerning declines in coral abundance. One mitigation strategy to combat these declines is coral restoration through large-scale coral aquaculture, along with the application of probiotics to provide health benefits.
Globally, coral reefs are under pressure from climate change, with concerning declines in coral abundance observed due to increasing cumulative impacts. Active intervention measures that mitigate the declines are increasingly being applied to buy time for coral reefs as the world transitions to a low-carbon economy. One such mitigation strategy is coral restoration based on large-scale coral aquaculture to provide stock for reseeding reefs, with the added potential of selecting corals that better tolerate environmental stress. Application of probiotics during production and deployment, to modulate the naturally occurring bacteria associated with corals, may confer health benefits such as disease resistance, increased environmental tolerance or improved coral nutrition. Here, we briefly describe coral associated bacteria and their role in the coral holobiont, identify probiotics traits potentially beneficial to coral, and discuss current research directions required to develop, test and verify the feasibility for probiotics to improve coral aquaculture at industrial scales. Crown Copyright (C) 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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