Steering soil microbiomes to suppress aboveground insect pests

TY - JOUR

T1 - Steering soil microbiomes to suppress aboveground insect pests

AU - Pineda, Ana

AU - Kaplan, Ian

AU - Bezemer, T. Martijn

N1 - 6355, TE; Data Archiving: no data

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - Soil-borne microbes affect aboveground herbivorous insects through a cascade of molecular and chemical changes in the plant, but knowledge of these microbe?plant?insect interactions is mostly limited to one or a few microbial strains. Yet, the soil microbial community comprises thousands of unique taxa interacting in complex networks, the so-called 'microbiome', which provides plants with multiple beneficial functions. There has been little exploration of the role and management of whole microbiomes in plant-insect interactions, calling for the integration of this complexity in aboveground-belowground research. Here, we propose holistic approaches to select soil microbiomes that can be used to protect plants from aboveground attackers.

AB - Soil-borne microbes affect aboveground herbivorous insects through a cascade of molecular and chemical changes in the plant, but knowledge of these microbe?plant?insect interactions is mostly limited to one or a few microbial strains. Yet, the soil microbial community comprises thousands of unique taxa interacting in complex networks, the so-called 'microbiome', which provides plants with multiple beneficial functions. There has been little exploration of the role and management of whole microbiomes in plant-insect interactions, calling for the integration of this complexity in aboveground-belowground research. Here, we propose holistic approaches to select soil microbiomes that can be used to protect plants from aboveground attackers.

KW - international

U2 - 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.07.002

DO - 10.1016/j.tplants.2017.07.002

M3 - Article

SN - 1360-1385

VL - 22

SP - 770

EP - 778

JO - Trends in Plant Science

JF - Trends in Plant Science

IS - 9

ER -