Journal
NEW PHYTOLOGIST
Volume 234, Issue 6, Pages 1945-1950Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/nph.17908
Keywords
climate change; root metabolome; root microbiota; secondary metabolites; stress resistance; synthetic biology
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- National Science Foundation of China [31801268]
- China Postdoctoral Science Foundation [2021M691430]
- SUSTech Presidential Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Israel Science Foundation [32061143023]
- Shenzhen Municipal Startup Fund
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Design for Plant Cell Factory of Guangdong Higher Education Institutes [2019KSYS006]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [32061143023]
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Plants and microbes coevolve on Earth, and root metabolites play a crucial role in mediating their dynamic association. Understanding the metabolite-mediated alteration of root microbiota under environmental stress can lead to improved plant stress resistance. Synthetic biology-based strategies for tuning plant root metabolome offer potential solutions to combat climate change.
Plants and microbes coinhabit the earth and have coevolved during environmental changes over time. Root metabolites are the key to mediating the dynamic association between plants and microbes, yet the underlying functions and mechanisms behind this remain largely illusive. Knowledge of metabolite-mediated alteration of the root microbiota in response to environmental stress will open avenues for engineering root microbiotas for improved plant stress resistance and health. Here, we synthesize recent advances connecting environmental stresses, the root metabolome and microbiota, and propose integrated synthetic biology-based strategies for tuning the plant root metabolome in situ for microbe-assisted stress resistance, offering potential solutions to combat climate change. The current limitations, challenges and perspectives for engineering the plant root metabolome for modulating microbiota are collectively discussed.
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