Climate-Resilient Microbial Biotechnology: A Perspective on Sustainable Agriculture

Chengjia Tan, Mohammad Talib Kalhoro, Yahya Faqir, Jiahua Ma, Matthew Duah Osei and Ghulam Khaliq
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Chengjia Tan: School of Life Science and Technology, Mianyang Teachers’ College, Mianyang 621000, China
Mohammad Talib Kalhoro: School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
Yahya Faqir: School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
Jiahua Ma: School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
Matthew Duah Osei: School of Life Science and Engineering, Southwest University of Science and Technology, Mianyang 621010, China
Ghulam Khaliq: Department of Horticulture, Lasbela University of Agriculture, Water and Marine Sciences, Uthal 90150, Pakistan

Sustainability, 2022, vol. 14, issue 9, 1-29

Abstract: We designed this review to describe a compilation of studies to enlighten the concepts of plant–microbe interactions, adopted protocols in smart crop farming, and biodiversity to reaffirm sustainable agriculture. The ever-increasing use of agrochemicals to boost crop production has created health hazards to humans and the environment. Microbes can bring up the hidden strength of plants, augmenting disease resistance and yield, hereafter, crops could be grown without chemicals by harnessing microbes that live in/on plants and soil. This review summarizes an understanding of the functions and importance of indigenous microbial communities; host–microbial and microbial–microbial interactions; simplified experimentally controlled synthetic flora used to perform targeted operations; maintaining the molecular mechanisms; and microbial agent application technology. It also analyzes existing problems and forecasts prospects. The real advancement of microbiome engineering requires a large number of cycles to obtain the necessary ecological principles, precise manipulation of the microbiome, and predictable results. To advance this approach, interdisciplinary collaboration in the areas of experimentation, computation, automation, and applications is required. The road to microbiome engineering seems to be long; however, research and biotechnology provide a promising approach for proceeding with microbial engineering and address persistent social and environmental issues.

Keywords: microbiome; organic agriculture; environment; bio-engineering; biosensors (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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