Exploring the potential of endophyte-plant interactions for improving crop sustainable yields in a changing climate

• DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2024.1349401
• Publication Date: 2024-03-20T09:58:22Z
• Authors: Lorenzo Sena; Erica Mica; Giampiero Valè; Patrizia Vaccino; Nicola Pecchioni
• Keywords: Biotic stress

Climate change poses a major threat to global food security, significantly reducing crop yields as cause of abiotic stresses, and for boosting the spread new old pathogens pests. Sustainable management route mitigation challenge recruiting an array solutions tools aims. Among these, deployment positive interactions between micro-biotic components agroecosystems plants can play highly significant role, part agro-ecological revolution. Endophytic microorganisms have emerged promising solution tackle this challenge. Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) endophytic bacteria fungi demonstrated their potential alleviate stresses such drought heat stress, well impacts biotic stresses. They enhance in sustainable way also by other mechanisms, improving nutrient uptake, or direct effects on plant physiology. In review we summarize update main types endophytes, highlight several studies that demonstrate efficacy explore possible avenues implementing crop-microbiota interactions. The mechanisms underlying these are complex require comprehensive understanding. For reason, omic technologies genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics been employed unravel, higher level information, network microorganisms. Therefore, discuss various approaches techniques used so far study plant-endophyte